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DCP-LETT-2835

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
18 June [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.218)
Summary:

Asks about the period of gestation in dogs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2836

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 June [1860]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 129)
Summary:

Has WDF ever observed musk ducks laying eggs in high places? The case bears on retention of aboriginal habits.

Also wants data on period of gestation of dog breeds. [See Variation 1: 30.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2838

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
20 [June 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.219)
Summary:

Blyth’s effort to raise money for a Chinese expedition.

Comments on free-will in animals.

Says natural selection is not in the same category with Huxley’s "force" and "matter".

Discusses remarkable variation in period of gestation in dogs and ducks.

Discusses Arctic flora.

Has been working on orchids; they beat woodpeckers in adaptation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2839

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
20 June [1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 18)
Summary:

Has had a very satisfactory answer from Mr Parfitt. Asks HTS to insert query in Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer and also to answer it himself. ["Do the Tineina and other small moths suck flowers?", Collected papers 2: 35–6.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2840

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
21 June [1860]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/3/15)
Summary:

Places affair [land purchase] entirely in JH’s hands. Son [William?] will visit in a week or two.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2840F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
22 June 1860
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £244 5s. 11d. for half-year rents less deductions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2841

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
24 June [1860]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Asks for information about pollen of bee orchid. Asks for specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2843

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 [June 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.220)
Summary:

Encloses arrow-heads.

Comments on gestation in dogs.

Mentions BAAS meeting at Oxford.

Etty’s illness.

Criticises views of J. W. Dawson on organic and geological change.

The problems of distinguishing varieties and species.

Discusses facts explained by his theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2844

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Obadiah Westwood
Date:
25 June [1860]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum (Hope Entomological collections)
Summary:

Would like to borrow the bees that, as reported in Gardeners’ Chronicle, were sent to JOW with pollen-masses of orchids sticking to them. CD has never seen a bee visit an orchid. He believes he could identify the genus and perhaps species of the orchids the pollen comes from.

His health is too bad to attend the meeting [of British Association for the Advancement of Science].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2846

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [June 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 63
Summary:

Going for hydropathy. Too ill for Oxford BAAS meeting.

Pollination by minute insects.

CD proves his view regarding Goodenia stigmatic surfaces by dissection and following pollen-tubes up to grains.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2848

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer
Date:
[20 June 1860]
Source of text:
Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer , 30 June 1860, p. 103
Summary:

Is it physically possible for moths to eat the pollen of Mercurialis? Believes moths may visit the smaller clovers to suck the nectar.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2849

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
[30 June 1860]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Asks about removal of pollen-masses in bee orchid.

Will return home on 5th and go to Charles Langton’s on the 9th.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3290

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 [June 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 69 (EH 88206052)
Summary:

CD writes of his admiration for pollination contrivances in Gymnadenia. Ask George Bentham whether this plant should be removed from genus Orchis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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