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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[28 July 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 54
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[3 July 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 278
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[July 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 279
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
23 July [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 280
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[15 July 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 837
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [July 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B55
Summary:
Wynne [gardener] suggests he should be paid from the money from the sale of the Mount, but EAD suggests an annual subscription instead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
August Kanitz
Date:
3 July [1867]
Source of text:
C. G. Boerner in Leipzig (dealer) (4–6 December 1911)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 169–70
Summary:
Has been too busy to write. Is leaving for Switzerland that evening.
A friend, who ran away from home as a boy, has two sons who have done the same several times. Is the case worth investigating for CD?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
4 July [1867]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/15)
Summary:
Congratulates EH on approaching marriage.
Sorry he will not visit in autumn.
Glad EH is re-examining Protoamoeba but puzzled to think what he can find.
Describes newspaper account of criticism by Agassiz of Generelle Morphologie.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 July [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f. 92)
Summary:
Acknowledgment of article on mimicry [Westminster Rev. 88 (1867): 1–43].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[after 6 July 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 16–17
Summary:
Sends W. M. Canby’s observations on the carnivorous powers of Dionaea. [See Insectivorous plants, pp. 301, 310, 313.]
Contributor:
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From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1867
Source of text:
DAR 181: 41
Summary:
Has distributed CD’s questions on expression. Observations on the natives.
Floral structure encouraging cross-pollination in Polygala.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1867
Source of text:
DAR 174: 6
Summary:
Will seek answers to CD’s questions on expression. Observing patients’ blushing. Is CD interested in the platysma during screaming under chloroform?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1867
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:
Curious to read what CD will say on man and his races.
Has CD seen Ludwig Rütimeyer’s Ueber die Herkunft unserer Thierwelt (Rütimeyer 1867c)?
Discusses J. F. W. Herschel’s theory of active volcanoes existing at the junction of continents and the sea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Salt & Sons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 10
Summary:
Discusses proposed sale of house and provision for Wynne, the gardener, and his wife.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1867
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 130–1
Summary:
Thanks CD for sending F. H. G. Hildebrand’s book on fertilisation [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)]
and J. D. Hooker’s "Lecture on insular floras".
Describes work on Rubiaceae, Oxalis,
and on crossing orchids. Lists crosses made.
As for CD’s query concerning sexual differences among invertebrates, he gives the case of the local amphipod, Brachyscellus diversilor. Male differs in shape of antennae and coloration.
Also mentions local fish in sea near Sta Catharina which emits melodic tone to attract females.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 July [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.331)
Summary:
Chapter 12 [of Variation] finished;
too late to include information on six-fingered men. Plans for book on man [Descent].
Mentions coral reefs of Tahiti.
Discusses volcanic islands; volcanoes of the Cordillera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
26 July [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 57
Summary:
Prefers not to send her proof-slips of the present chapter [of Variation], which has been enormously altered, but will be glad to have her see slips and revises in future.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 July 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 171
Summary:
Back from Switzerland. Mrs Hooker much improved.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 July [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 143
Summary:
Pleased JDH will come next Saturday.
Asks him to return Adam Bede.
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- Darwin, C. R.19
- Darwin, E. A.1
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- Darwin, G. H.4
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- FitzGibbon, Edmund1
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- Hooker, Joseph2
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- Krauss, Ferdinand1
- Leverrier, Urbain J. J.1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
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- Martius, Carl von1
- McDowell, J[ames]2
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- Meyer, H. J.1
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