From J. D. Hooker 14 October 1875
Summary
JDH shares CD’s annoyance with R. L. Tait.
Has identified awned carpels for CD.
Sports of Paritium.
Suggests extending Francis’ experiments with glycerine on twisted seeds, to Mimosa.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 38–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10197 |
To J. V. Carus 14 October [1875]
Summary
Sends sheets of Climbing plants [2d ed.], which will be published in November. Suggests JVC have someone translate it under his supervision,
since he has not yet finished Insectivorous plants.
Admires the appearance of [German ed. of] Journal of researches.
Discusses other publication prospects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 135–136) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10198 |
To Lawson Tait 14 October [1875]
Summary
Will be happy to present RLT’s paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (MS 331 box 1 folder 11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10199 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Tait, Lawson | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Tait, Lawson | (1) |
Living and fossil cirripedia
Summary
Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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- … Darwin published four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on …
