From:
John Pender; Emma Denison; Emma Pender
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 23 June 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 168v
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 193: 113–14
Summary:
Sends drawings of the foot of chicken showing swimming membrane.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 19
Summary:
Publication Committee of Zoological Society has granted CD use of woodblock from the Society’s Proceedings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A21–2
Summary:
Two, perhaps all three, doe [rabbits] are sterile after the transfusions; will try another method.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 293
Summary:
Tells of his health and family matters.
Congratulates CD on being honoured by Oxford.
Discusses the state of Tierra del Fuego and the success of missionaries there.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 181: 82
Summary:
On behaviour of birds when frightened and when threatening.
Purple Cytisus grafted onto yellow stock produces some yellow flowers.
Mutations in rabbits.
Cites case of variegated leaf form of one plant apparently spreading to a neighbour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: B160–1
Summary:
[William Rathbone] Greg is author [of "Failure of ""natural selection"" in the case of man", Fraser’s Magazine 78 (1868): 353–62].
Comments on findings in J. M. Duncan [Fecundity, fertility, sterility and allied topics (1866)].
Saw A. D. Bartlett about monkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Caldwell Rye
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 229
Summary:
Draws CD’s attention to a paper in American Naturalist [3 (1869): 109] describing honey-bees killed by entanglement in pollen-masses of Asclepias.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 65
Summary:
Has procured a Passiflora flower at last. Structure suited for humming-birds rather than bees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
