From Gerard Krefft [c. 1 November 1873?]
Summary
Describes the behaviour of a pet donkey and pig.
Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 1 Nov 1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8834 |
From Godfrey Wedgwood [November 1873]
Summary
Captive and tame birds inheriting the migratory instinct.
Author: | Godfrey Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9121 |
To Down School Board [after 29 November 1873]
Summary
CD, Sir John Lubbock, Ellen Frances Lubbock, and S. E. Wedgwood, petition the Board to grant permission for the school hall to be used as a reading room in the evening during winter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Down School Board |
Date: | [after 29 Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/25/31/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9122 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 November 1873]
Summary
Sends leaves and names by post.
Is writing everywhere for Drosophyllum.
Is deeply interested in Desmodium.
Had no intention of publishing on Nepenthes, the experiments were solely for CD’s "eating". Will continue with egg and raw meat experiments. Asks for advice on how to prove fluid is secreted by the glands.
Searles Wood’s letter is confused and would deny atavism if his principles were accepted.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 178–80, DAR 209.12: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9123 |
From Gerard Krefft 1 November 1873
Summary
Many insects visit Eucalyptus flowers as long as there is pollen to be seen. Asking his colleague, George Masters, to gather insects and flowers at Long Bay for CD.
Observations on wild New Guinea pig in captivity.
Will take CD’s advice to write a book.
Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9124 |
Krefft, Gerard | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Godfrey | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Down School Board | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Krefft, Gerard | (2) |
Down School Board | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Godfrey | (1) |