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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[early July 1871]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.

Are measuring glasses accurate?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
July 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 458
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Bartlett
Date:
1 July [1871]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Thanks for ducks’ skins, for which he encloses postal order.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
1 July [1871]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 68)
Summary:

Thanks AGB for "various notes".

Would like to hear his views about the Brahmaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
1 July [1871]
Source of text:
Nature , 6 July 1871, pp. 180–1
Summary:

Refers H. H. Howorth, the writer of "A new view of Darwinism" [Nature 4 (1871): 161–2], to Variation for a discussion of fertility and sterility of organisms in relation to increased food and other factors.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
1 July [1871]
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (Fall 1996 catalogue)
Summary:

Would be delighted to see CVR at Down, but is in precarious health and cannot talk to anyone for more than an hour.

Wrote to CVR a few weeks ago to thank him for his book [see 7794].

Will expect CVR on Thursday unless he hears otherwise.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Hill Norris
Date:
July 1871
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham: US41/7/13/42
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 July 1871
Source of text:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Summary:

Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
2 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 235
Summary:

Asks Lyell to put a question to CD: "To what far distant origin can the configuration of the skin surface [the symmetrical but different curves] at the last points of the fingers and toes be traced?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 69–70, DAR 205.2 (Letters): 240
Summary:

Plans to write an account of his trip to Morocco and, with John Ball, the botanical geography, for Linnean Society.

Results mainly negative; the Atlas exhibits "the dying out of European flora".

Only two or three beetles above 8000ft.

Disappointed that Canary Island species are absent from Atlas mountains; but an ocean current along Moroccan coast should help migration of Spanish, Portuguese, and Moroccan seeds to Canaries and Madeira.

Describes Lyell’s poor physical condition. Asks CD for his observations of symptoms.

Contributor:
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From:
John Booth
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
3 July 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew Directors' correspondence, vol. 139, f. 59
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
3 July 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418324
Summary:

Feels he has done little to deserve the honour that the Entomological Society proposes to give him.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
4 July [1871]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (Grove Papers)
Summary:

Has never before noticed with care the markings on finger-ends. Compares them to the complex whirl-pool patterns of human foetal lanugo.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 July [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of WBT’s book [Pheasants for coverts and aviaries (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5–8 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 190–2
Summary:

Mammae in human males.

The role of natural selection in the development of beards and manes of animals.

Hereditary pointing in setters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 July [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 197–8
Summary:

Lady Lyell’s anxiety over Lyell’s health.

Preparing new edition of Origin.

Asks whether anything was observed [in Morocco] on expressions.

Did JDH notice whether pollen-masses in Ophrys apifera in N. Africa fall on the stigma, as in England?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Fredrik Bergstedt
Date:
6 July [1871]
Source of text:
Kungliga biblioteket, National Library of Sweden
Summary:

Thanks author of an anonymous Swedish review of CD’s works [in Samtiden, Vecksckrift för politik och litteratur, ed. C. F. Bergstedt, nos. 23–5 (1871): 358–64, 374–81, 390–7]. CD is surprised to learn the Origin has appeared in Swedish [1869].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henri-François Lucien de Candolle
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 July 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 220-221
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 71–2
Summary:

He did observe that Ophrys apifera fertilised itself as CD described and O. lutea as well.

Moroccans are too civilised, taciturn, and unfriendly to make anything of them for expressions of emotions.

Moraines and negative results on Atlas alpine flora are the only points of the journey worth much.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 276
Summary:

JJM’s Origin translation is being held up so that it can conform to the 6th English edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project