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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From George Henslow 20 October 1876
Summary
Asks whether CD’s conclusions on cross- and self-fertilising plants agree with his own as set out in a notice in Nature [14 (1876): 543–4].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10646 |
From George Cross 23 October 1876
Summary
Sends Drosera plants and details of treatment that led them to form normal leaves when grown without insects.
Author: | George Cross |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 270 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10650 |
From George Cross 23 October 1876
Summary
Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.
Author: | George Cross |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10651 |
From George Henslow 24 October 1876
Summary
Thanks for CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation] and information on protandry and protogyny.
Health better, but paralysis lingers.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10652 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 October 1876
Summary
JDH looking for Hoya for CD.
Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10658 |
From W. E. Darwin 27 October [1876]
Summary
Discussing a purchase of land.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11212F |
From M. D. Conway 12 October [1876]
Summary
Forwards a flower from a Mrs Crawshay, who sees its "evident struggle to become double as another instance of gradual evolution".
Author: | Moncure Daniel Conway |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13785 |
Cross, George | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Henslow, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Conway, M. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Cross, George | (4) |
Darwin, Francis | (2) |
Henslow, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |