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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
To Georg von Seidlitz 13 October 1876
Summary
CD is much obliged to receive Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie [1876].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Georg Karl Maria (Georg) von Seidlitz |
Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | Zoologische Staatssammlung München |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10643F |
To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1876]
Summary
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 423–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10644 |
To J. V. Carus 18 October [1876]
Summary
Proof sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation] have been lost.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 18 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 68–69) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10645 |
To G. H. Darwin 21 October [1876]
Summary
Refers him to Nature [14 (1876): 553] in which a Russian doctor [Prof. Poplavsky] contradicts GHD on deaf mutes not being closely interrelated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 21 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10647 |
To George Henslow 23 October [1876]
Summary
Floral structure. The order of the development of the whorls and its relationship to a protandrous or protogynous condition in flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henslow |
Date: | 23 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL, Henslow 1888 (tipped in opposite p. 190) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10648 |
To R. B. Smyth 23 October 1876
Summary
Thanks for the third number of the Geological survey of Victoria.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Brough Smyth |
Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | State Library Victoria, Melbourne (MS 8781 Box 1176/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10649 |
To Gustav Jäger 23 October 1876
Summary
Thanks for a copy of GJ’s Zoologische Briefe (Jäger 1876).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gustav Jäger |
Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | Frau Dr Hildegard Jaeger (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10651F |
To J. D. Hooker 25 October [1876]
Summary
Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 425–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10653 |
To J. V. Carus 25 October 1876
Summary
Sends sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation].
Heliotypes for Expression delayed because new negatives must be made.
Thanks Herr Koch [of Schweizerbart] for copies of Coral reefs and Climbing plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 25 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 149) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10654 |
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Darwin, Francis | (4) |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Cross, George | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Francis | (4) |
Carus, J. V. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Cross, George | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Geikie, James | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Henslow, George | (1) |
Jäger, Gustav | (1) |
Kerner von Marilaun, Anton | (1) |
Marshall, W. C. | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Seidlitz, Georg von | (1) |
Smyth, R. B. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Wagner, Moritz | (1) |
William Clowes & Sons | (1) |
Zacharias, Otto | (1) |