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From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 36
Summary:

Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
23 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

JBI’s "barnacles" would have been extraordinary, but they are hard lichens.

Has revisited Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 37
Summary:

"Barnacles" [from rocks in Scottish mountains, identified as lichens],

burglar alarms,

and family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 167: 38
Summary:

Has heard that land may be available for parsonage at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
2 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Elizabeth Margaret Elliott Lucas (private collection)
Summary:

Hensleigh Wedgwood has told CD that land JBI had inquired about will be sold at auction with the house [Trowmer [Tromer!?] Lodge].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project