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DCP-LETT-10547

From:
Francis Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 182
Summary:

Identified two flies as species of Empis that suck flowers, but the females also feed on small Diptera.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13773

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
26 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Summary:

Discusses deduction from bill for medicine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13788

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
8 Jan [1862 or 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 321
Summary:

Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13871

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Pamplin
Date:
4 [July 1862]
Source of text:
Bangor University Archives and Special Collections (Pamplin papers PAMP/40)
Summary:

Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13877F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 Mar [1862-9]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:

Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13878

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
29 Mar [1862-9]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8)
Summary:

Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2916

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 205.8: 69
Summary:

Cites descriptions of melastomads in C. V. Naudin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 3d ser., vols. 12–18.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3356

From:
James Bateman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 59
Summary:

Glad CD approves of the orchids he sent.

Believes the pollinia of Mormodes are projected; thinks CD should look at the pollinia of Chysis and investigate the hybrid between Limatodes and Calanthe.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3357

From:
Robert Bateman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 60
Summary:

For his father [James Bateman], he sends three more species of orchids and names of others described by CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3358

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Union Bank
Date:
[before 3 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 5
Summary:

Wishes to invest some money in railway shares; asks for the advice of the bank’s brokers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3360

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John St Barbe
Date:
[16 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 3r
Summary:

Wants to invest some money, as Treasurer of the Down Friendly Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3361

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Brown Gibson
Date:
[after 29 June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 4
Summary:

Thanks JBG for acceding to his wishes in the endeavour to discover whether hair colour in Europeans is correlated with susceptibility to tropical diseases [see Descent 1: 244–5].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3362

From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov? 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 184
Summary:

AS has been seriously ill with rheumatic fever.

Is studying the natives of South Africa to see whether he can trace any connection between them and the populations of North Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3362F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Nov 1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 10)
Summary:

Counted seeds by tens. Sends some.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3363

From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 319
Summary:

Asks if CD will have corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin.

CD’s theory only natural way to explain creation but contradicts current knowledge about origin of life from inorganic matter.

Has read Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] with interest.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3364

From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 19 May 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 40
Summary:

Sends photograph. Asks CD for his.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3368

From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 9
Summary:

Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3370

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 7
Summary:

Quiz has been sent off to Down.

JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3371

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[3] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Quiz arrived safely.

CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3372

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard
Date:
2 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (MS-BROWC/981/96)
Summary:

Pleased to hear through Miss Pennington that CEB-S intends to review Origin in a French journal. Suggests 3d ed. as this will soon appear in French translation. Does not expect perfect agreement on so complex a subject as descent.

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