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DCP-LETT-4217F

From:
William Allport Leighton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 180
Summary:

His observations of varieties of Verbascum.

Reference to Abbé Correa in the Life of Sir J. E. Smith.

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DCP-LETT-4218

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 196
Summary:

Herbert Spencer’s work disappointing – "all words & generalities".

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DCP-LETT-4219

From:
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes (Jacques Boucher de Perthes)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 257
Summary:

Sends his tranformist book [De la création: essai sur l’origine et la progression des êtres, 5 vols. (1838–41)]; his admiration for CD’s work.

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DCP-LETT-4221

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 197
Summary:

CD describes first observation of gyratory motion of tendrils: explains its adaptive function is to find objects to hold on to.

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DCP-LETT-4222F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June [1863?]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 17)
Summary:

Spoke to Rosas, and gave him CD’s paper.

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DCP-LETT-4224

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2]9 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 147–8
Summary:

JDH and Oliver impressed with CD’s observations on gyratory motion of plants.

CD pleased with Bentham’s Linnean Society address on the reception of Darwinism [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 7 (1863): xi–xxix].

JDH’s social "dogma": "Brains x Beauty = Breeding + wealth".

[Dated 9 June by JDH.]

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DCP-LETT-4233

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June – 7 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 178: 58
Summary:

Progress of pigeon and poultry breeding experiments. No loss of fertility observed yet.

Blue-eyed cats and deafness.

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