From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 121
Summary:
Variation in recent leonine skeletons.
Miocene fauna of Europe.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
15 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 120
Summary:
Has been looking at the school accounts. Has any interest been paid to S. J. O’H. Horsman this year? CD will keep accounts temporarily; he has not yet received from Horsman the balance in hand from last year.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 216–17
Summary:
Will get name of grass [see 6243] from Gen. William Munro.
Has heard from Charles Wheatstone that CD has Prussian Order of Merit. Rejoices because it is the only distinction worth a fig.
Went to Handel festival; heard Messiah.
Went to poor old N. B. Ward’s funeral.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 [June 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 72–3
Summary:
On Pour le Mérite; JDH has made him think more highly of it.
Messiah is the one thing he would like to hear again, but thinks his soul might be too dried up now to appreciate it. Sometimes hates science for making him "a withered leaf" for everything else.
Frank [Darwin] now doing botany seriously.
Contributor:
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From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 18 June 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 141–2
Summary:
Coloration of linnets.
Sexual behaviour of black hen bullfinch.
Contributor:
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From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 17
Summary:
Further discussion of the difficulties with S. J. O’H. Horsman [curate at Down].
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 64
Summary:
JL’s Royal Institution lectures.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 218–19
Summary:
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.
Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 48
Summary:
Thanks CD for article by G. H. Lewes ["Mr Darwin’s hypotheses, pt 1", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 3 (1868): 353–73]. Comments on article.
Describes hybridisation experiment carried out on rabbits and hares by Dr Conrad.
Encloses description of Monera
and a phylogenetic table of vertebrates.
Mentions work on Medusae.
The controversy over CD in Germany.
Contributor:
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From:
Eduard Oskar (Oskar) Schmidt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 58
Summary:
Has received copy of Variation.
Sends copy of his book [Die Spongien der Küste von Algier (1868)]. Comments on it.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 284
Summary:
Weighing ten deerhound puppies for CD each week.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 74–5
Summary:
Thanks for name of grass.
Plans to go to Isle of Wight on 17 July.
Frank cannot come to Kew, as he will be reading this long vacation at Cambridge.
Delighted with Bentham’s Presidential Address [Linnean Society, 1868].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bryceson Brothers & Co.
Date:
[after June 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 68
Summary:
Reports the whereabouts of S. J. O’H. Horsman, who has failed to pay for an organ he ordered.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Bates
Date:
19 June [1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 120
Summary:
"Though next Spring will be rather late, I do not think it will be too late, & if in your power to send me some living specimens of Trox sabulosus, I shd. be greatly indebted to you.––-"
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 317; Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Summary:
Sorry JJW cannot visit.
Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.
Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]
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