From Hermann Müller 25 August 1873
Summary
Fritz Müller is now working on the Brazilian honey-bees (Melipona and Trigona).
HM thanks CD for fertilisation references.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 302 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9028 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 27 August 1873
Summary
CD can provide leaves of Dionaea if JSBS wishes to investigate electric currents in them.
His experiments show that the digestive action of Drosera seems like that of true digestion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 27 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.6103 ff.101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9029 |
To J. T. Moggridge 27 August 1873
Summary
Comments on experiments of touching seeds with acid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Date: | 27 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 380 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9030 |
From G. H. Darwin to Richard Strachey [29 August 1873]
Summary
Writes for CD to thank RS for his very valuable information.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Strachey |
| Date: | [29 Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9031 |
From E. C. Rye 29 August 1873
Summary
Reports a paper by H. von Kiesenwetter [Berliner Entomol. Z. 16 (1872): 370] on the Malthodes, some species of which appear to have a sex ratio with females greatly outnumbering males, suggesting the occurrence of parthenogenesis.
| Author: | Edward Caldwell Rye |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9032 |
From W. W. Reade 29 August 1873
Summary
Has returned from Egypt because of trouble with his eyes.
Has read George Darwin’s article on consanguineous marriage.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9033 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 August 1873
Summary
Identifies three plants sent by CD.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 173; DAR 209.6: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9034 |
From W. E. Darwin 30 August – 14 September [1873]
Summary
Experiments on Mimosa.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug – 14 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9035 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 30 August 1873
Summary
Talks of his attempts to describe the course of descent for a part of the animal kingdom, and thanks CD for his help and support.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | V. O. Kovalevsky 1873–4, pp. [ii–iii] |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9035F |
From W. W. Reade 31 August [1873]
Summary
Going to the Ashanti war as Times correspondent.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9036 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Darwin, Francis | (5) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (3) |
