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 |
From W. E. Darwin 28 October 1862
Summary
Distances between Lythrum plants.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162.1: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3786 |
From Henrietta Emma Darwin [29 October 1862]
Summary
Instinct in cats.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3787 |
From John Lubbock 30 October 1862
Summary
Hopes to visit tomorrow if CD is up to it.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3788 |
To W. E. Darwin 30 [October 1862]
Summary
Thanks WED for observations on Lythrum.
Discusses family affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 30 [Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3789 |
From W. E. Darwin [5 October 1862]
Summary
Has found Lythrum, and sends some. Wants to know what CD thinks of frog discussion between Sandars and James. Asks CD to send objects for microscope demonstration. Means to go see the London Exhibition again. Has finished reading Orley Farm and returns it.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [5 Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3789F |
From C. W. Crocker 31 October 1862
Summary
Difficulties in beginning experiments upon retirement.
Describes his observations on insect pollination of Antirrhinum and the effect of excluding the pollinators.
Has been observing variant forms of Plantago
and comparing local orchids with CD’s observations.
Possibility of an intermediate-styled primrose.
His experiments at Kew and J. B. Lawes’s at Harpenden on deterioration of vegetables and cereals.
| Author: | Charles William Crocker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76 (ser. 2): 84a–d |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3790 |
To Natural History Review [before 10 October 1862]
Summary
In his work on cirripedes [Cirripedia, vol. 1 Lepadidae (1851), pp. 53–5] CD described a particular organ as an "auditory-sac" although he was unable to trace the supposed nerve from it to any ganglion. August Krohn [in "Observations on the development of the Cirripedia", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 6 (1859): 423–8] concluded that the organ was ovarian. CD supposes that Krohn is correct, but gives further observations that suggest an auditory function. If someone could find ova within the curious organ it would confirm Krohn’s view.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Natural History Review |
| Date: | [before 10 Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Review n.s. 3 (1863): 115–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3895 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (3) |
| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (4) |
| Lubbock, John | (4) |
