From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Reuter
Date:
24 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 297
Summary:
Thanks for facts on inheritance. May be used if CD corrects 3d ed. [2d ed.] of Variation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 324
Summary:
"My health got so bad I could do nothing at Down".
Gives information about migration of male and female birds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
2 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 272
Summary:
Thanks for [July 1869] issue of Quarterly Review.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
7 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 3 (EH 88205901)
Summary:
Comments on WO’s paper on Salvia [Pop. Sci. Rev. 8 (1869): 261–73], which he admires.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
7 [July 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 130
Summary:
Thanks him for his excellent observations [on Epipactis?]; would like WED to watch for some large insect visiting the plant.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 137–9
Summary:
Simeon Habel of New York has returned from Galapagos. CD has asked him to send any plants to JDH.
Reading Nägeli convinces him that it is all-important to learn all about polymorphic or protean genera for the "Laws of Variability".
New Zealand genera are interesting and have perplexed him for years.
Has read paper on snakes. Thinks it is not fascination but fear that makes the victim fall into snake’s power.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 140–2
Summary:
An article in North British Review by mathematician against Hooker and Huxley and for William Thomson [P. G. Tait, "Geological time", North Br. Rev. 50 (1869): 406–39]. Feels a conviction that world will be found older than reviewer makes it.
Article on "Design" [by J. B. Mozley] in Quarterly Review [127 (1869): 134–76].
Has JDH studied Drosophyllum?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Gray
Date:
12 July 1869
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 232–3)
Summary:
Would be glad to send GRG a testimonial of his abilities as a naturalist, but is not qualified to express opinion on his works in ornithology or entomology.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
17 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 545; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990)
Summary:
Discusses need for cross-fertilisation in Geranium.
Hooker begins to doubt whether Drosophyllum so closely allied to Drosera.
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