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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
19 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 148: 328
Summary:

"Like you I have often wondered at the different food of the old and young, as with graminivorous birds feeding their young with insects."

Recommends forthcoming book by John Lubbock [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
30 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 329
Summary:

Not surprised incipient disease in female would make her unattractive to male.

Sorry JJW’s official duties are so heavy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
31 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 330
Summary:

Thanks for new case.

Not very well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
18 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (B MS Misc.)
Summary:

JJW is quite at liberty to use CD’s name as patron of cat show.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
22 May 1873
Source of text:
Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)
Summary:

Has no doubt he will find JJW’s address interesting.

Thinks same spot for nesting might prove attractive to birds, though they had had no intercommunication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 May 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.468)
Summary:

August Weismann is interested in JJW’s experiments on birds and the caterpillars they eat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project