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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 264
Summary:

Identifies Henslow’s mouse that used tail as prehensile climbing organ as Mus messorius.

Has not seen the Quarterly Review.

Inquires after Lyell’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vernon Lushington
Date:
24 July [1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for providing turtle soup.

Not quite so sure he thanks VL for introducing Richard Buckley Litchfield into the Darwin family to be CD’s son-in-law.

Asks about the lip position of a pouting child.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 July [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 201
Summary:

Thanks for information about Henslow’s mouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
H. G. Cavendish Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 328
Summary:

Reports that a humble-bee fertilised a tropical orchid in his hothouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 178: 188
Summary:

Hopes to visit during CD’s stay at Haredene.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
27 July 1871
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 70)
Summary:

Invites RT to call on him while he is staying at Haredene.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Theodor Piderit
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 174: 43
Summary:

Interested in forthcoming Expression.

Sends publications.

Describes physiological theory of mental activity. Asks for CD’s opinion of his theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July [1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 5
Summary:

Wants CD to sign an enclosure [missing] and get the signatures of other family members.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
[after 29 July 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 5
Summary:

Asks [EAD] to get signatures as opportunity offers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 325
Summary:

Shocked at Lyell’s appearance and speech.

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 July [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of WBT’s book [Pheasants for coverts and aviaries (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[early July 1871]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.

Are measuring glasses accurate?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July [1871]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 224-226
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 264-265]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1871
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B103-106
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 227-228
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 265-267]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 July [1871]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 229-231
  • British Library, The: Add. 46434 ff. 232
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 268-269]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 231]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1871
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B107-108
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 233
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 269-270]
Summary:

ARW reassures Darwin that he has an army of converts.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Anne Violetta (Violetta) Darwin; Frances Anne Violetta (Violetta) Galton
Date:
12 July [1871]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/7)
Summary:

Thanks his aunt for a note about a picture bought by CD’s sons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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