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DCP-LETT-3162

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[17 May 1861]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 151
Summary:

Thanks Mr Beaton for his answer [to 3147].

Asks further questions on points raised in Beaton’s previous papers: whether crossing white and blue varieties of Anemone apennina produced many pale shades; whether the Mathiola incana and M. glabra which crossed freely were artificially or naturally crossed.

CD is delighted by Beaton’s assertion that "not a flower in a thousand is fertilised by its own immediate pollen".

Recounts his experiments with Leschenaultia formosa to show insect fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3163

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Hunt
Date:
28 May [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.250)
Summary:

Thanks President and Council of Ethnological Society for his election.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3164

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 May [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has completed MS on poultry [for Variation].

Thanks for information on their courtship.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3165

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)].

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DCP-LETT-3166

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 144
Summary:

[Queries in CD’s hand answered on same pages by WBT.] Sexual selection of fowls; role of beauty in cocks.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3167

From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1861
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 1–9
Summary:

Sexual behaviour of fowls.

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DCP-LETT-3168

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].

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DCP-LETT-3169

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 35
Summary:

Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".

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DCP-LETT-3170

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles William Crocker
Date:
1 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.251)
Summary:

Suggests procedures for breeding experiments with hollyhocks. Recommends C. F. v. Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)]. [See also 3151]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
1 [June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 66
Summary:

Writes about dealings through John Lubbock regarding [a banking partnership for] WED.

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DCP-LETT-3172

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
1 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 42 (EH 88206486)
Summary:

William Darwin can go to Southampton any time should the banking proposition come to anything. CD is sure he would work hard.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3173

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
2 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.252)
Summary:

Discusses feral rabbits of Porto Santo. Arranges for care of rabbits while the Darwins visit Torquay.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3174

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
2 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Asks for specimens of Aceras.

Mentions orchid species he has seen. Asks AGM to make observations.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3175

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
4 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Sends queries concerning insect fertilisation of Epipactis palustris.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3176

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 June [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (60)
Summary:

AG’s review of John Phillips’ book [Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9].

Thinks his experiments will explain Primula dimorphism.

Insect fertilisation of orchids.

Wishes that the "greatest curse on Earth", slavery, were abolished.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
6 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 3 (EH 88205928)
Summary:

Arrangements for a meeting.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
6 [June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 69–70
Summary:

Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.

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DCP-LETT-3179

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[8 June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 2 (EH 88205927)
Summary:

Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3179F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 June [1861-8]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6)
Summary:

CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3180

From:
Thomas Francis Jamieson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 47: 171–2
Summary:

Will look for botanical specimens CD requested.

Tells of a kestrel with a broken leg which apparently was forced to change its diet to worms and snails because of the injury.

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