To Thomas Meehan 3 October 1875
Summary
Comments on review [of Insectivorous plants] in New York Independent.
Working on Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 3 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 354 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10181 |
From Thomas Meehan 28 April [1878]
Summary
Sends CD Dr Wood’s lecture on insectivorous plants.
Had no intention of antagonising CD with his observations on Linum; was anxious to account for its apparently different behaviour.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Apr [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10944 |
From Thomas Meehan 1 July 1877
Summary
Credits himself with stimulating most of the American work on plant cross-fertilisation. Sends his review of Cross and self-fertilisation [in Penn Monthly (June 1877)]. Suggests CD, A. Gray, and TM now agree on the extent of self-fertilisation in nature.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11028 |
To Thomas Meehan 5 July [1877]
Summary
Thanks for review. Fears "we must agree to differ".
Health weak. Not worth TM’s time to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 5 July [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 355 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11036 |
To Thomas Meehan 13 May 1878
Summary
Criticises article by TM. "Such a manner of treating the work of other observers did not appear to me the way to encourage truth."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 13 May 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 356 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11507 |
From Thomas Meehan 28 April 1880
Summary
There has been talk in American papers of CD’s admitting he was wrong about hybrid sterility. TM has presented CD’s views in the New York Independent.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Apr 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12594 |
From Thomas Meehan 14 June 1880
Summary
Suggests plants whose stamens show movement.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12634 |
From Thomas Meehan 10 February 1871
Summary
Sends CD some remarks he made before the Academy of Natural Sciences [Philadelphia].
TM is indebted to the Origin for first suggesting to him which observations might be useful to those working out the greater laws of nature.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7479 |
From Thomas Meehan 3 March 1873
Summary
Although he believes in evolution, TM feels that natural selection is an inadequate cause;
nor is he satisfied with E. D. Cope’s law of acceleration and retardation.
Discusses some of his work relating to nutrition and sex and colour and sex.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8796 |
To Thomas Meehan 19 March [1873]
Summary
Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.
Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 19 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 352 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8816 |
From Thomas Meehan 22 September 1874
Summary
Sends CD his photo
and a copy of his address at Hartford ["Change by gradual modification not the universal law", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1874) pt 2: 7–12]. Does not believe his observations are unfavourable to natural selection but feels there are other factors involved in the origin of form.
Discusses further his work on colour and sex in plants; the linking of high colour and maleness.
Author: | Thomas Meehan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9651 |
To Thomas Meehan 9 October 1874
Summary
Doubts whether sudden and great variations often occur.
Comments on colours of flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 353 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9672 |
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