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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[13 or 20 February 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2228
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[before 24 February 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2229
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[30 March 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2230
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[25 February 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2347
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 182
Summary:
Identified two flies as species of Empis that suck flowers, but the females also feed on small Diptera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
8 Jan [1862 or 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 321
Summary:
Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 205.8: 69
Summary:
Cites descriptions of melastomads in C. V. Naudin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 3d ser., vols. 12–18.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Bateman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 59
Summary:
Glad CD approves of the orchids he sent.
Believes the pollinia of Mormodes are projected; thinks CD should look at the pollinia of Chysis and investigate the hybrid between Limatodes and Calanthe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Bateman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 60
Summary:
For his father [James Bateman], he sends three more species of orchids and names of others described by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Union Bank
Date:
[before 3 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 5
Summary:
Wishes to invest some money in railway shares; asks for the advice of the bank’s brokers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John St Barbe
Date:
[16 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 3r
Summary:
Wants to invest some money, as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Brown Gibson
Date:
[after 29 June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 4
Summary:
Thanks JBG for acceding to his wishes in the endeavour to discover whether hair colour in Europeans is correlated with susceptibility to tropical diseases [see Descent 1: 244–5].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov? 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 184
Summary:
AS has been seriously ill with rheumatic fever.
Is studying the natives of South Africa to see whether he can trace any connection between them and the populations of North Africa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Nov 1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 10)
Summary:
Counted seeds by tens. Sends some.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 319
Summary:
Asks if CD will have corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin.
CD’s theory only natural way to explain creation but contradicts current knowledge about origin of life from inorganic matter.
Has read Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] with interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 19 May 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 40
Summary:
Sends photograph. Asks CD for his.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 9
Summary:
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 7
Summary:
Quiz has been sent off to Down.
JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 5
Summary:
Sends plant specimens. William Borrer will be glad to send seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 23
Summary:
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
- Alberts, Maurice1
- Babington, C. C.3
- Bromley Savings Bank1
- Bronn, H. G.2
- Claparède, Edouard1
- Cresy, Edward, Jr2
- Darwin, C. R.292
- Darwin, Emma4
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, H. E.3
- Darwin, W. E.38
- Falconer, Hugh4
- Gibson, J. B.1
- Harrison, L. C.1
- Hooker, J. D.40
- Huxley, T. H.2
- Jamieson, T. F.1
- Journal of Horticulture1
- Lubbock, John7
- Malherbe, Alfred1
- Masters, M. T.1
- Oliver, Daniel13
- Ramsay, A. C.3
- Scott, John5
- Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation1
- St Barbe, John1
- Stephens, T. S.1
- Stokes, George Gabriel1
- Tegetmeier, W. B.1
- Unidentified1
- Union Bank1
- Vaughan Williams, M. S.1
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- Wedgwood, L. C.1
- Wedgwood, M. S.1
- Wedgwood, Sophy1
- Woodbury, T. W.1
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