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DCP-LETT-13870

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Feb – Aug 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 5
Summary:

Provides another case of apparently pure bred pointers producing litter with one setter puppy. Correspondent was told that this occurred in several litters; gives names of owners and others who can corroborate the information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13818

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1858-9]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 242
Summary:

Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3074

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 69
Summary:

A bee’s sting always remains behind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3349

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 6
Summary:

Arrangements for sending Quiz.

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-3454

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 8
Summary:

Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3534

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 9
Summary:

About Quiz and [Horace Darwin’s] health.

Asks whether CD has tried W. B. Tegetmeier’s beehives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3863

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 10
Summary:

News of family and friends.

Saw a white rabbit with black-tipped ears on a moor where only brown ones commonly and black ones occasionally dwell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4283

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 11
Summary:

Duke of Argyll has been dubbed "Duke Darwinii" by papers.

Large number of toads have been found in railway cuttings; wishes a scientific observer had taken pains to explain where they came from.

Comments on Scottish schools and on the morals of the adult poor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4290

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 12
Summary:

Explains "Duke Darwinii" reference [in 4283].

Family news.

Writes of Scottish immorality and pious talk.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4357

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 13
Summary:

Suggests a new school for CD’s son [Horace].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5205

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 167: 5
Summary:

Recommends a tutor for CD’s son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5791

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 14
Summary:

Sends school subscription to CD as treasurer. Hopes Henrietta will assist in teaching there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5819

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 15
Summary:

Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6241

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 16
Summary:

Writes about difficulties in which S. J. O. Horsman, curate at Down, has involved himself and others. Horsman has said he would resign. JBI offers to give up his interests in the living at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6251

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6335

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 18
Summary:

JBI has been charmed with Variation. Does not think there is really any theological difficulty in the "predestination of variation".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6397

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 19
Summary:

The election of 1868.

Remarkable deflection of the plummet observed east of Forres.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6492

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 20
Summary:

Full background on the difficulties of the vicarage of Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6493

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 21
Summary:

Describes a supposed cross between a cow and a red deer or doe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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