To Thomas Meehan 9 October 1874
Summary
Doubts whether sudden and great variations often occur.
Comments on colours of flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 353 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9672 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 October [1875]
Summary
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 397–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10209 |
From Thomas Meehan 22 September 1874
Summary
Sends CD his photo
and a copy of his address at Hartford ["Change by gradual modification not the universal law", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1874) pt 2: 7–12]. Does not believe his observations are unfavourable to natural selection but feels there are other factors involved in the origin of form.
Discusses further his work on colour and sex in plants; the linking of high colour and maleness.
| Author: | Thomas Meehan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9651 |
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- … letter to Thomas Meehan, 19 March [1873] . Meehan refers to Edward Drinker Cope and Joseph George Rosengarten . Meehan refers to his address ‘Change by gradual modification not the universal law’ delivered to the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Hartford, Conn. , on 13 August 1874 ( …
To C. V. Riley 28 September 1881
Summary
Comments on CVR’s paper [‘Further notes on the pollination of Yucca and on Pronuba and Prodoxus’, Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1880): 617–39]. ‘What an inaccurate man Mr Thomas Meehan is.’ Interested in further observations on Pronuba.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13360 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Meehan, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Meehan, Thomas | (1) |
| Riley, C. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Meehan, Thomas | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Riley, C. V. | (1) |
