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DCP-LETT-3184

From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 160.2: 300
Summary:

On his father’s crossing experiments with cacti, in which hybrids were found quite fertile.

On his breeding of guinea-pigs.

Sends Miss E. Watts’s message about crested fowls and Brahmas.

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DCP-LETT-3185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gordon
Date:
17 June [1861]
Source of text:
Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.7)
Summary:

Asks whether GG can help CD get specimens of Corallorhiza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697)
Summary:

Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
17 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Would be grateful for observations on orchids.

Believes Spiranthes visited by moths. Asks AGM to repeat experiment on Spiranthes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3188

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 18 June 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 211
Summary:

CD, commenting on a case of peloric flowering in Auricula, urges readers to send in their observations on whether flowers nearest the axis tend to differ from others on the plant. Such a law of variation would be worth discovering.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3189

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Smith
Date:
19 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.255)
Summary:

Discusses pollen-masses found on various insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3190

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 103
Summary:

CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.

William Darwin’s partnership in bank.

Work: variation and orchids.

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DCP-LETT-3191

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gordon
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.8)
Summary:

Thanks GG for his efforts. Corallorhiza would be most valuable.

Leaves for Torquay on 1 July.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 84
Summary:

Many mutual acquaintances are ill.

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DCP-LETT-3193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 692)
Summary:

Thanks GB for specimen [of Orchis pyramidalis].

Discusses a great difficulty with orchids: "Insects visit several species which never secrete an atom of honey." [See Orchids, p. 44ff.] Does GB know whether nectar is ever secreted and reabsorbed promptly?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3194

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 99: 3–4
Summary:

Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".

The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.

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DCP-LETT-3194A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
23 June [1861]
Source of text:
Walter R. Benjamin Autographs (dealer) (1992)
Summary:

Noting that he is not an M.D., he would be much gratified should the University of Breslau think fit to honour him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3195

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
24 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40d (EH 88206453)
Summary:

There have been delays, but William Darwin’s banking position is nearly settled.

Is going to Torquay, where he will write up his work on orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3196

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
24 [June 1861]
Source of text:
Bellmans (dealers) (5 December 2019, lot 632)
Summary:

Thanks HF for offer of valuable specimen, but CD has no aquarium. Suggests the Zoological Society would be the best place for it.

Will keep HF’s note among a very few precious letters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3197

From:
Robert Colgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 76 (ser. 2): 171–2
Summary:

Notes observations on the spread of bees in New Zealand and their importance as pollinators of clover and other introduced plants.

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DCP-LETT-3197F

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
George Gordon
Date:
27 June 1861
Source of text:
Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.9)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot assist the fulfilment of CD’s request for a specimen of the orchid Corallorhiza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3605

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
14 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 235
Summary:

Discusses transport of fish to Lake Constance by flooding.

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DCP-LETT-4533

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 June [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Sends MS on fowls for WBT’s inspection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4012

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
June 1861
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4013

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Isabella Ann Herries
Date:
3 June 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 152/5
Summary:

No summary available.

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Faraday Project
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