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DCP-LETT-5124

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 101
Summary:

In response to CD’s request for bud-sports, he sends a piece of a fern-leaved beech.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5126

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 162
Summary:

Has altered paper according to CD’s comments.

Returns books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5128

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A77
Summary:

Thinks Rhamnus is a case of a dimorphic plant that has become dioecious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5129

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A80
Summary:

"It [Rhamnus catharticus?] is certainly a case of dimorphic become dioecious."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5133

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 286
Summary:

Reports on his health.

Discusses a surveying expedition under Richard Charles Mayne on which his son will be Second Lieutenant; hopes to arrange for them to excavate some bones in the Falklands.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5134

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A78–9, A47–9
Summary:

Sends flowers of the differing kinds [of Rhamnus?] with observations.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5136F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26–8 June 1866]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 28)
Summary:

He has had a great struggle with Buckthorn, and would like CD to see the measurements some time.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5138

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 52
Summary:

Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5139

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 79–80
Summary:

Suggests a memorial from Huxley, Murchison, and other geologists on the Gallegos fossils. He will speak privately to Duke of Somerset.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5140

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 106: B33–8
Summary:

Lengthy analysis of sources of misunderstanding of natural selection. Advocacy of Spencer’s term "survival of the fittest" instead of "Natural Selection". ARW urges CD to stress frequency of variations.

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DCP-LETT-5141

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 151
Summary:

Is trying to arrange a new American edition of Origin.

Gives notes on Passiflora acerifolia [on cover].

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DCP-LETT-5143

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 178: 72
Summary:

All the blocks [for Variation] are now engraved except the rock-dove.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5146

From:
Frederick Currey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 307
Summary:

Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on climbing plants"] is about to appear [in J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9]. Would CD approve of figures being reduced in size?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5147

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 and 6 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 209
Summary:

Sends onion and mint seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5149

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 311
Summary:

Has taken memorial to G. H. Richards, the Hydrographer. He favours the proposal and will instruct Capt. Mayne. THH will communicate with Dr Cunningham, the naturalist for the expedition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5150

From:
Frederick Ransome
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 99: 26–7
Summary:

Is compelled to ask for postponement of payment of principal. His invention is gaining ground. Will pay interest until payment is made.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5151

From:
George Stacey Gibson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 40
Summary:

Asks CD if he can explain the results of an experiment that produced barley from oats that had been cut down to prevent their flowering.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5153

From:
Frederick Ransome
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 99: 21
Summary:

Thanks CD for his kind expressions [of sympathy] and for his consideration. Encloses cheque for £5 interest.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5154

From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 169: 34
Summary:

Asks for CD’s opinion of the manner of migration of the eye of flatfish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5156

From:
Searles Valentine Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 181: 145
Summary:

Barley growing from old oat stalks.

Contributor:
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