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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 46
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
6 [June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 69–70
Summary:
Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
6 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 3 (EH 88205928)
Summary:
Arrangements for a meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[8 June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 2 (EH 88205927)
Summary:
Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Francis Jamieson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 47: 171–2
Summary:
Will look for botanical specimens CD requested.
Tells of a kestrel with a broken leg which apparently was forced to change its diet to worms and snails because of the injury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
14 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 235
Summary:
Discusses transport of fish to Lake Constance by flooding.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 160.2: 300
Summary:
On his father’s crossing experiments with cacti, in which hybrids were found quite fertile.
On his breeding of guinea-pigs.
Sends Miss E. Watts’s message about crested fowls and Brahmas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 103
Summary:
CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.
William Darwin’s partnership in bank.
Work: variation and orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 84
Summary:
Many mutual acquaintances are ill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 99: 3–4
Summary:
Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".
The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
24 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40d (EH 88206453)
Summary:
There have been delays, but William Darwin’s banking position is nearly settled.
Is going to Torquay, where he will write up his work on orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Colgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 76 (ser. 2): 171–2
Summary:
Notes observations on the spread of bees in New Zealand and their importance as pollinators of clover and other introduced plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 104
Summary:
Trip to Torquay.
Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
10 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 43 (EH 88206487)
Summary:
Seeks JL’s advice on the articles of partnership in the Southampton bank. CD and his solicitor fear they will be unfavourable to William.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 105
Summary:
Has worked out homologies of orchids’ pollinia and rostellum.
On W. H. Harvey’s review ["The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
14 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 44 (EH 88206488)
Summary:
Thanks JL and his father for advice regarding Southampton bank. Has written to Atherley for fair terms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Fawcett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 29–30
Summary:
Elaborates on his article ["A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the origin of species", Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92]. Was anxious to point out that CD’s method of investigation is philosophically correct. Asks permission to call.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 [July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 106
Summary:
Orchids from Kew.
JDH’s income problems.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[17 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 49
Summary:
Difficulty of distinguishing varieties and species. Did HCW suggest a printed list that might help?
Polymorphic genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
24 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 4 (EH 88205942)
Summary:
Has been idling and enjoying the scenery.
"At dinner we were all sticking bits of ice together by their points, marvelling at the phenomenon and talking of you."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project