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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
26 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.400)
Summary:

Invites MF to visit.

Asks where he can obtain curare for plant experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 141–2
Summary:

Has arranged to send CD a bottle of urari [curare]. Describes its effect with strychnine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Booth
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
26 June 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' correspondence, vol. 139, ff. 56 -57
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
Date:
26 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 174
Summary:

Gives examples of dogs’ expressions produced by ear movements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Briton Riviere
Date:
27 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 317
Summary:

Discusses animal drawing showing expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Borough of Castlemaine
Date:
28 June 1871
Source of text:
Unit 50, VPRS 575 Borough of Castlemaine sundry records, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
28 June [1871]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 20–1)
Summary:

Fears a pirated edition of Descent; hopes JJM’s translation will come out soon.

Preparing new [6th] edition of Origin. Can publication of French edition be delayed in order to incorporate corrections?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 123
Summary:

Thanks for the photographs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 81–2
Summary:

Resemblance of ocelli, in a moth and the argus pheasant.

Mimicry.

Pugnacity of stickleback.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
29 [June 1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.401)
Summary:

Thanks him for curare.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 195–6
Summary:

Delighted to hear from Lyell of JDH’s return from successful ascent of the Atlas Mts.

Fears JDH found no Madeira or Canary types, but CD is pleased at his moraine discovery.

Thinks Lyell’s health is serious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
30 June 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.280, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project