From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Luke Hindmarsh
Date:
12 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 128
Summary:
Thanks for information about natural increase of Chillingham cattle. Compares with case in Paraguay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
1 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 7 (EH 88205991)
Summary:
Thanks W. H. Fitch for drawing for the Primula paper. Death of experimental plants delays publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Luke Hindmarsh
Date:
3 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 127
Summary:
Asks how many wild Chillingham cattle are killed each year. Interested in rate of increase.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 May [1861-8]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 122
Summary:
CD is obliged for the offer, but he is "too much occupied to contribute to any periodicals".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 63
Summary:
Discusses family and domestic matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 99
Summary:
Henslow’s long suffering.
Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 100
Summary:
Henslow’s death.
What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.
Beaton not to be trusted.
CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24–5 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 101
Summary:
CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[25 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 64
Summary:
Has heard, through Lubbock, of a gentleman who is offering a partnership in a bank.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[25 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 41 (EH 88206485)
Summary:
Discusses the possibility of a banking job for William [Darwin]; wishes to meet JL to discuss the prospects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 65
Summary:
Discusses the opportunity for WED to become a partner in a bank.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
27 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 8 (EH 88205992)
Summary:
Requests that exotic species of Vinca, which never set seed at Kew, be fertilised by pressing a fine bristle between anthers as a moth would its proboscis.
Asks that Primula farinosa be sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
28 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 320
Summary:
Thanks for railway map.
Surprised about Richard Owen: "I thought his courage was as indomitable as his malignity."
Sends extract [Sir John Herschel, "Physical geography", from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1861)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 102
Summary:
Has written recollections of Henslow [Collected papers 2: 72–4].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
