To ? 24 October [1876]
Summary
Asks his correspondent to thank Prof. Reichenbach for his kindness. A plant was discovered in flower at Kew, and he was able to examine the doubtful point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10221F |
To J. V. Carus [early October 1876]
Summary
Tells JVC that to the title on the first page [of Cross and self-fertilisation] is to be added "in the vegetable kingdom".
Guesses that Orchids [2d ed.] will be 20 or 30 pages longer than the old edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | [early Oct 1876] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 66–67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10627 |
From Otto Zacharias 2 October 1876
Summary
Can CD send sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation as previously promised? OZ writing article on subject ["Darwin über Kreuzung und Selbstbefruchtung im Pflanzenreiche", Das Ausland (1877)].
German Darwinists preparing a Darwin album with photographs of themselves as gift.
Author: | Otto Zacharias |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 184: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10628 |
To Francis Darwin 2 October [1876]
Summary
Thanks FD for corrections [to Orchids (1877)].
Thinks Johann von Fischer’s paper on monkeys’ rumps [Der Zoologische Garten 17 (1876): 116–27, 174–9] worth translating, and he intends to write a letter on it to Nature [Collected papers 2: 207–11].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10629 |
From Francis Darwin [after 2 October 1876]
Summary
Sorry the corrections were so tedious, and offers to do revises.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 2 Oct 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10629F |
From George Cross 4 October 1876
Summary
Drosera plants grown with insects excluded have developed normally.
Author: | George Cross |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 268 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10630 |
From Hermann Müller 4 October 1876
Summary
He has never observed the straight line flight routes in male humble-bees that CD reports.
His last letter was in error: alpine Bombus terrestris does break into some flowers.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10631 |
To Otto Zacharias 5 October [1876]
Summary
The sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation will be sent to OZ as they become ready.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Zacharias |
Date: | 5 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | Swiss National Library, Helvetic Archives (SLA-Rhyn-06-d/03) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10632 |
To George Cross 6 October [1876]
Summary
CD is much interested in a change in Drosera reported by GC, but "rather doubts" exclusion of insects can have caused it; would like to see the plant and suggests sending it to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cross |
Date: | 6 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10633 |
To William Clowes & Sons 7 October [1876]
Summary
Approves the type for Orchids [2d ed.]. The printer should advise Murray that it will be 300 pages.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Clowes & Sons |
Date: | 7 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | University of California Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Special Collections (Charles Darwin / Evolution Collection Mss 28 Correspondence Box 4: 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10634 |
To Francis Darwin 8 October [1876]
Summary
Sends an article for FD.
Is glad he is able to work on his teasel paper [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1878): 4–8]; suggests some observations FD could make.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10635 |
From Francis Darwin [after 8 October 1876]
Summary
Thanks for papers and letter; has been working in the mornings on teasel.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Oct 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10635F |
From George Cross 9 October 1876
Summary
Sending specimens of Drosera grown without insects.
Author: | George Cross |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 269 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10636 |
To M. T. Masters 10 October [1876]
Summary
Discusses views of [Alexander James] Maule on potatoes.
Discusses graft-hybrids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 10 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 347 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10637 |
To Francis Darwin [11 October 1876]
Summary
Asks for reference to an article on a mandrill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [11 Oct 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10638 |
From Asa Gray 12 October 1876
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10639 |
From J. I. Rogers 12 October 1876
Summary
His brother, George, reports from Calcutta a case of a man whose hands are divided like a cow’s foot.
Author: | John Innes Rogers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10640 |
To Francis Darwin [12 October 1876]
Summary
Has seen notice on Empetrum but cannot understand how leaves in bud could act as fly-catchers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | [12 Oct 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10641 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 66–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10642 |
To Moritz Wagner 13 October 1876
Summary
Comments on essays by MW [Das Ausland, May 1875]. Criticises his theory of isolation as source of species change: "But my strongest objection to your theory is that it does not explain the manifold adaptations in structure in every organic being". Believes MW has misunderstood his views: "I believe that all the individuals of a species can be slowly modified within the same district … I do not believe that one species will give birth to two or more new species, as long as they are mingled together within the same district."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Moritz Friedrich (Moritz) Wagner |
Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 198; LL 3: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10643 |
letter | (41) |
Conway, M. D. | (1) |
Cross, George | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Henslow, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Rogers, J. I. | (1) |
Zacharias, Otto | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Darwin, Francis | (4) |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Cross, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Francis | (6) |
Cross, George | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |
Henslow, George | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Zacharias, Otto | (2) |
Conway, M. D. | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Geikie, James | (1) |
Jäger, Gustav | (1) |
Kerner von Marilaun, Anton | (1) |
Marshall, W. C. | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Rogers, J. I. | (1) |
Seidlitz, Georg von | (1) |
Smyth, R. B. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Wagner, Moritz | (1) |
William Clowes & Sons | (1) |