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From W. W. Bailey [November 1877]
Summary
Encloses flowers. Long-styled form may be a sport.
| Author: | William Whitman Bailey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Nov 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11162 |
To James Cartmell [November 1877]
Summary
Regrets he cannot accept JC’s invitation to the [Master’s] Lodge [of Christ’s College] when he comes to Cambridge to accept his LL.D., as his health demands he stay quite by himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Cartmell |
| Date: | [Nov 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 26v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11218 |
From G. M. Asher to John Murray 1 November 1877
Summary
Describes case of two varieties of Russian wheat, the kubanka (or White Turkish) and the saxonka, which grow side by side with no intermediate varieties. As kubanka gradually yields place to saxonka, thinks an unusual tendency to jumping variation [saltation] operates; suggests CD urge some young botanist to investigate [see ML 2: 419–22].
| Author: | Georg Michael Asher |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11222 |
To Horace Darwin 1 November [1877]
Summary
Wants HD to observe earthworm activity at Roman antiquities of Chedworth and Cirencester.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11221 |
To Williams & Norgate 1 November [1877–9?]
Summary
Asks to be sent Dr Frank’s Die Natur: wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1877-9] |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (November 2005) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10234F |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Asher, G. M. | (1) |
| Bailey, W. W. | (1) |
Addressee
| Cartmell, James | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Williams & Norgate | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Asher, G. M. | (1) |
| Bailey, W. W. | (1) |
| Cartmell, James | (1) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
