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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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[3] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Quiz arrived safely.

CD’s three sons are in bed with bad colds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Has heard of mules of canary and other finches breeding occasionally, but it is rare, and there is hardly one authenticated case of two such mules breeding together.

Sixteen of the household at Down are sick with influenza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
1 May [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Quiz has had to be killed because he became vicious.

Horace Darwin strangely ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
22 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Family and local news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project