From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 173: 68
Summary:
Will send Ophrys apifera var. lutea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 61–2
Summary:
Has given CD’s name to a species of Abutilon found by Fritz Müller.
Pleased at Henrietta [Darwin]’s engagement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 July [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 199–200
Summary:
Honoured by Abutilon name; describes observations on its fertilisation.
Henrietta’s marriage a great loss to him.
Latest Quarterly Review has article, "evidently by Mivart", that cuts CD into mincemeat.
Asks for name of species of mouse J. S. Henslow used to keep [see 598].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 July 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.276 (C: Académie belgique: #61)
Summary:
Thanks JH for accepting dedication. This has brought AQ utmost pleasure. Has dedicated few works. Expresses his esteem for JH's character and talent.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
7 July 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.19, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
July 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 458
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
7 July 1871
Source of text:
No. 2225, pp. 1391-2, unit 25, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.Copies of the circular were sent to heads of 14 of the subsidiary departments within the Chief Secretary’s Department
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
James Agnew
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 July 1871
Source of text:
RSA/B/1 letter abstract book, no. 51, Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Hobart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Author
- Agnew, James1
- Allen, Fanny1
- Blair, R. H.1
- Booth, John1
- Browne, H. G. C.1
- Butler, A. G.1
- Candolle, Henri-François Lucien de1
- Coghlan, John1
- Darwin, C. R.31
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Grove, George1
- Grove, W. R.2
- Hooker, J. D.5
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften1
- Kratz, Otto1
- Mill, John Stuart1
- Moulinié, J. J.1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von6
- Museo de Historia Natural de Madrid1
- Odgers, William1
- Oxenden, G. C.1
- Piderit, Theodor1
- Quetelet, Adolphe1
- Smith, Andrew1
- Tegetmeier, W. B.1
- Trimen, Roland1
- Wallace, A. R.2
- Wallace, Alfred Russel4
- [Spottiswoode], [William]1
- FEWER