From:
Thomas William Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 181: 148
Summary:
Argus pheasant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joachim Barrande
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 44–5
Summary:
Encloses a copy of a letter he has written to a French geologist. In it he raises objections to evolutionary theory:
why are corals inadequately represented in the fossil record?
How can one explain the widespread appearance and then disappearance of groups like the trilobites?
If Mollusca and Articulata have a common ancestor, why are not ancient forms more akin than present ones?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 83: 142–3
Summary:
Will send CD a deerhound puppy.
Reaffirms his statement that dogs in breeding form decided preferences toward each other, based on size, colour, or character.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 166: 322
Summary:
Reports "shindy" at Oxford over persons proposed for doctorate. Pusey assented to CD’s being "doctored" to keep out seven worse devils.
Contributor:
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From:
Louis Rérolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 133
Summary:
Copies of the French translation of Orchids were sent to C. V. Naudin, Quatrefages de Bréau, and Charles Martins at CD’s request and to Duchartre, Brongniart, Baillon, Lecoq, Godron, and Alphonse de Candolle on Rérolle’s initiative.
Contributor:
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From:
John Pender; Emma Denison; Emma Pender
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 23 June 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 168v
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 193: 113–14
Summary:
Sends drawings of the foot of chicken showing swimming membrane.
Contributor:
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From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 19
Summary:
Publication Committee of Zoological Society has granted CD use of woodblock from the Society’s Proceedings.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 105: A21–2
Summary:
Two, perhaps all three, doe [rabbits] are sterile after the transfusions; will try another method.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Bates
Date:
26 June [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 121
Summary:
Thanks for Trox beetles which have been forwarded [to London], but unfortunately CD has no microscope here. Is "in despair how to observe them … they sham dead" and are not inclined to stridulate.
Contributor:
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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 293
Summary:
Tells of his health and family matters.
Congratulates CD on being honoured by Oxford.
Discusses the state of Tierra del Fuego and the success of missionaries there.
Contributor:
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From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 181: 82
Summary:
On behaviour of birds when frightened and when threatening.
Purple Cytisus grafted onto yellow stock produces some yellow flowers.
Mutations in rabbits.
Cites case of variegated leaf form of one plant apparently spreading to a neighbour.
Contributor:
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From:
William Robson Scott
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
28 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 124
Summary:
Speculates on the origin of gestures representing good and bad or approval and disapproval;
discusses signs used in teaching the deaf and dumb, particularly the use of opposites [see 7244].
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: B160–1
Summary:
[William Rathbone] Greg is author [of "Failure of ""natural selection"" in the case of man", Fraser’s Magazine 78 (1868): 353–62].
Comments on findings in J. M. Duncan [Fecundity, fertility, sterility and allied topics (1866)].
Saw A. D. Bartlett about monkeys.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 173
Summary:
Asks whether JDH can send seeds of Hibiscus africanus and of Nolana prostrata raised at Kew.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Caldwell Rye
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 229
Summary:
Draws CD’s attention to a paper in American Naturalist [3 (1869): 109] describing honey-bees killed by entanglement in pollen-masses of Asclepias.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
29 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 327
Summary:
On birds erecting feathers.
Comments on production of buds in Cytisus.
Discusses case of rabbit-breeding which affected subsequent progeny of female.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 65
Summary:
Has procured a Passiflora flower at last. Structure suited for humming-birds rather than bees.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Winwood Reade
Date:
30 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 79–80
Summary:
Thanks WWR for information on the Nehro idea of beauty and other facts relating to expression.
Contributor:
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