From Hermann Müller 27 May 1873
Summary
Poa annua shows putative evidence of nectar secretion in grasses. He will continue observations as CD requests.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 301 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8923 |
To Francis Galton 28 May 1873
Summary
Comments about questionnaire CD completed for FG [for Galton’s English men of science (1874)].
Describes his early interest in collecting and his education.
Asks about determining the mean heights of two groups of men.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 28 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/15); Pearson 1914–30, 2: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8924 |
From Rudolf Hennig 28 May 1873
Summary
Wants a picture of CD for a book he is writing on the history of natural sciences.
| Author: | Rudolf Hennig |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 201: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8925 |
From Arthur Mostyn-Owen 28 May 1873
Summary
He will keep the portrait of CD.
| Author: | Arthur Mostyn Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8926 |
From William Harte 29 May 1873
Summary
Light sense in dogs.
| Author: | William Harte |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8927 |
From Francis Galton 30 May 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for completed questionnaire;
answers his query about determining mean heights of men.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A74–A76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8928 |
To Hermann Müller 30 May 1873
Summary
Further comments on HM’s [Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 30 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 435; Krause 1884, p. 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8929 |
From T. H. Farrer 3 May 1873
Summary
Hopes affairs will enable him to get back to flowers.
Huxley’s letter [about the fund raised for him] was noble. Would like to have seen CD’s to him.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8896 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Müller, Hermann | (3) |
| Galton, Francis | (2) |
| Mostyn Owen, Arthur | (2) |
| Baer, K. E. von | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Müller, Hermann | (2) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Canby, W. M. | (1) |
| Baer, K. E. von | (1) |
| Baker, A. F. | (1) |
| Barrett, W. F. | (1) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (2) |
| Canby, W. M. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Cupples, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (48) |
| Dell’Oro, Isidoro | (1) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (3) |
| Harte, William | (1) |
| Hennig, Rudolf | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
| Hookham, George | (1) |
| Kerner von Marilaun, Anton | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
| Krefft, Gerard | (1) |
| Leffen, T. B. | (1) |
| Luschan, Felix von | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Masłowski, Ludwik | (1) |
| Mostyn Owen, Arthur | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (5) |
| Nicols, Arthur | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (2) |
| Pozzi, S. J. | (2) |
| Reade, W. W. | (1) |
| Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
| Russell, Arthur | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
