From Asa Gray 23 August 1869
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6867 |
From W. C. Tait [23 August 1869]
Summary
Will obtain some Drosophyllum seed for CD.
Author: | William Chester Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Aug 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6868 |
To Federico Delpino 24 and 25 August [1869]
Summary
Thanks FD for his three publications.
CD is pleased that FD has discussed Pangenesis, although he does not favour the hypothesis. Will seek English publisher.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 24 and 25 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.376) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6869 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 25 August 1869
Summary
Inquires about the differences in plumage between chicks and adults of certain poultry breeds. Is anxious to know whether the chick’s plumage closely approaches the adult’s in those breeds in which the sexes resemble each other in plumage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 25 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6870 |
From Frederick Smith 26 August 1869
Author: | Frederick Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: 1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6871 |
To W. C. Tait 27 August [1869]
Summary
Will not trouble WCT for more specimens of Drosophyllum. Hooker says genus is closely allied to Drosera, though having such different habits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
Date: | 27 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 546 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6872 |
From T. H. Farrer 8 August 1869
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6857 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 August [1869]
Summary
THF’s view, if confirmed, pleases CD in that what appears a mere morphological character is found to be of use. Carl Nägeli has been attacking him on this head.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 10 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6859 |
From T. H. Farrer 12 August 1869
Summary
Will work on papilionaceous flowers since CD encourages it. Discusses function of hairs in certain plants.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6861 |
letter | (29) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Beddoe, John | (2) |
Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Cobbold, T. S. | (1) |
Delpino, Federico | (1) |
Elliot, Walter | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
Beddoe, John | (2) |
Delpino, Federico | (2) |
Elliot, Walter | (2) |
Tait, W. C. | (2) |
Blackwall, John | (1) |
Cobbold, T. S. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Lloyd, M. C. | (1) |
Norman, A. M. | (1) |
Quadri, Achille | (1) |
Rérolle, Louis | (1) |
Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
St Clair, George | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |