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DCP-LETT-11194

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 167: 33
Summary:

JBI reports that the editor of Journal of Horticulture has identified the tree at Loch Carron as Sambucus racemosa, red-berried elder.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11768

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 167: 34
Summary:

JBI on CD’s integrity and the separateness of science and religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12157

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 167: 35
Summary:

Reports finding a wood pigeon’s nest on the ground, though woods are nearby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12694

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 36
Summary:

Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12698

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 37
Summary:

"Barnacles" [from rocks in Scottish mountains, identified as lichens],

burglar alarms,

and family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12874

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 38
Summary:

Has heard that land may be available for parsonage at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13337

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 167: 39
Summary:

JBI’s observations on bees and wasps. The hexagonal cells made by solitary queen wasps do not fit explanation in Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13343

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 167: 40
Summary:

Did not intend his last letter as criticism. Is sure CD would not "wriggle out" of a difficulty if he had observed it.

Sends CD a wasps’ nest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13818

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1858-9]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 242
Summary:

Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13870

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Feb – Aug 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 5
Summary:

Provides another case of apparently pure bred pointers producing litter with one setter puppy. Correspondent was told that this occurred in several litters; gives names of owners and others who can corroborate the information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3074

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 69
Summary:

A bee’s sting always remains behind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3349

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 6
Summary:

Arrangements for sending Quiz.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3370

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

DCP-LETT-3454

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 8
Summary:

Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3533

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Thomas Sellwood Stephens
Date:
[before 5 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 2
Summary:

JBI asks Stephens to ask CD to send particulars of Tegetmeier’s beehives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3534

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 9
Summary:

About Quiz and [Horace Darwin’s] health.

Asks whether CD has tried W. B. Tegetmeier’s beehives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3863

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 10
Summary:

News of family and friends.

Saw a white rabbit with black-tipped ears on a moor where only brown ones commonly and black ones occasionally dwell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4283

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 11
Summary:

Duke of Argyll has been dubbed "Duke Darwinii" by papers.

Large number of toads have been found in railway cuttings; wishes a scientific observer had taken pains to explain where they came from.

Comments on Scottish schools and on the morals of the adult poor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4290

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 12
Summary:

Explains "Duke Darwinii" reference [in 4283].

Family news.

Writes of Scottish immorality and pious talk.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4357

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 13
Summary:

Suggests a new school for CD’s son [Horace].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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