From:
Samuel James O’Hara Horsman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 270
Summary:
Resigns curacy of Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 96: 48
Summary:
Progress of CD’s order for certain books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 78
Summary:
Plumage of canaries; changes in plumage with successive moults.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 42
Summary:
Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Westey Janson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A101–2
Summary:
Sends specimens of Coleoptera.
Quotes from W. F. Erichson [Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands 3: 927] on stridulating organs in Trox.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Rogers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 193
Summary:
Suggests variation in seed-covering membranes as a cause of variation in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 214–15
Summary:
Horrified to find he has forgotten to announce birth of daughter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Baker Tristram
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 178: 193
Summary:
Will answer CD’s queries when he returns home in a month.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rosa Follett; Rosa Bullar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 373
Summary:
Reports case of black retriever that always burrows in earth before giving birth and keeps pups in hole thereafter. CD’s book says this habit rare.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 21
Summary:
F. Müller’s corrections warrant stating that the English translation has "additions and corrections by the author".
Is gratified to hear his index [to Variation] is considered a good one.
Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1868)], though speculative, strikes him as "one of the most remarkable books of our time".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Wright; John Osmaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 163–4, DAR 85: B38, DAR 86: A95–6
Summary:
Preference of females for particular males certainly exists occasionally.
On the proportion of males to females in horses and in dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1868
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21 , 2: 141–3; W. S. Dallas trans. 1869 , pp. 119–21 n.
Summary:
Again thanks CD for trouble in arranging for translation of Für Darwin.
Sends addition answering critics of his idea of insect metamorphosis [see Möller ed. 1915–21, 1: 259].
Agrees with Charles Lyell’s suggested English title "Facts and arguments in favor of Darwin", although perhaps more accurate to call it "Darwinism tested by Carcinology" or "Carcinology as bearing on the origin of species".
Says any profit should go to CD for his trouble and expense with the translation.
Thanks for seeds of Eschscholtzia.
Gives observations on number of climbing plants, including Dilleniacea, Marantacea, Catasetum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 18, DAR 205.3: 288 (Letters), DAR 84.2: 79-82, 85–6, DAR 86: C22, C24
Summary:
Shot a sandpiper in Norway, the hind toe of which was clasped by a freshwater bivalve.
Sends replies to CD’s queries about sex ratios in humming-birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project