To John Lubbock 27 [October 1862]
Summary
Hopes to be well enough on Friday to see JL.
Several of the family have had influenza.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 27 [Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3783 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [October 1862]
Summary
Masdevallia turns out to be nothing wonderful, "I was merely stupid about it."
Asks for plants for experiments.
Hedysarum and Oxalis sensitiva seeds.
Asks whether Oliver knows of experiments on absorption of poisons by roots.
CD finds he cannot publish this year on Lythrum salicaria; he must make 126 additional crosses!
Asks for odd variations of common potato; he wants to grow a few plants of every variety.
Variation is crawling.
Has had some bad attacks lately.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3784 |
From Asa Gray 27 October 1862
Summary
Sends Nesaea seeds for CD
and stamps for Leonard Darwin.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3785 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
