From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
7 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 146: 377
Summary:
Glad JTM intends to write a paper. Discusses JTM’s research on Arbutus.
CD’s riding accident.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
8 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 328
Summary:
Thanks for information about expression.
Comments on JC-B’s photographs of insane people.
Sends copy of Duchenne [see 6755].
Asks for further information about platysma, his bête noire for a year or two.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 134–6
Summary:
The house at Barmouth.
His poor health.
Bentham’s interesting Linnean Society Address ["On geographical biology", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1869): lxv–c].
CD particularly wishes to know how botanists agreed with zoologists on distribution.
Still thinks isolation more important in preserving old forms than Bentham is inclined to believe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
25 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 221.4: 219
Summary:
Testimonial letter for ERL, praising his ability, knowledge, and zeal for science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Alfred Smith
Date:
[before 30 June 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 81: 35–6
Summary:
Sends engraved plates with instructions about illustrations for Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
