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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
2 June [1865]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 130)
Summary:

There is no chance of publication [of Variation] by autumn, because of CD’s illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
4 June [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.309)
Summary:

Thanks for note; mentions borrowing and returning volumes. Orders a volume containing a paper by R. J. H. Dutrochet ["Recherches sur la volubilité des tiges de certains végétaux et sur la cause de ce phénomène", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 295–303].

Notes that his health is better.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 270
Summary:

Agrees with JDH on Lyell–Lubbock controversy except that Lubbock’s printed note does not seem to him insulting. Hopes JDH can heal the breach.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
4 June [1865]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/12)
Summary:

Believes GM’s reported monstrosity is not rare. Does not believe it resulted from the effect of the imagination of the mother on her offspring.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Chapman
Date:
7 June 1865
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 44)
Summary:

Reports on progress of ice treatment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 28; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 131)
Summary:

Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].

Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 244
Summary:

Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.

Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 169: 32
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
11 June [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 7 (EH 88206456)
Summary:

JL’s book [Prehistoric times (1865)] is "most original".

Wishes him success in politics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 17 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 29
Summary:

Recommends J. W. Kayes’ book [History of the Sepoy War, vol. 1 (1864)].

Wife improving.

Glad CD liked Huxley’s letter.

Not an admirer of Kingsley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 45
Summary:

Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 169: 33
Summary:

CD’s paper on "Climbing plants" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] has made nature come alive for CK.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 271
Summary:

Huxley’s capital, witty letter.

Charles Kingsley has written of his interest in "Climbing plants".

Health has been very bad.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Victor Naudin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 172: 8
Summary:

Thanks CD for his paper "Climbing plants" [see 4861] and for a photograph.

Hopes soon to send a copy of his memoir on hybridisation

and with it will forward a short note on the tendrils of the Cucurbitaceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 178: 68
Summary:

WBT will try experiment for CD if Mr Zurhorst cannot do it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 246
Summary:

Thanks for "Climbing plants" [see 4861].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
3 June 1865
Source of text:
MM/14/204, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Huggins
To:
unknown
Date:
13 June 1865
Source of text:
MM/16/55, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
5 June 1865
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/135
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
5 June 1865
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/61
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project