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DCP-LETT-7253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
29 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 327
Summary:

On birds erecting feathers.

Comments on production of buds in Cytisus.

Discusses case of rabbit-breeding which affected subsequent progeny of female.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
19 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 148: 328
Summary:

"Like you I have often wondered at the different food of the old and young, as with graminivorous birds feeding their young with insects."

Recommends forthcoming book by John Lubbock [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
30 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 329
Summary:

Not surprised incipient disease in female would make her unattractive to male.

Sorry JJW’s official duties are so heavy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8441

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
31 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 330
Summary:

Thanks for new case.

Not very well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8919

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
22 May 1873
Source of text:
Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)
Summary:

Has no doubt he will find JJW’s address interesting.

Thinks same spot for nesting might prove attractive to birds, though they had had no intercommunication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 334
Summary:

Discusses case of Cytisus graft described by JJW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10056

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
10 July 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.466); DAR 148: 336
Summary:

Regarding Cytisus graft with yellow flowers, CD thinks nurseryman has sold Cytisus adami to JJW’s brother in place of C. purpureus. This explains apparent "sport". [P.S. on envelope:] C. purpureus seeds freely. C. adami never does.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
14 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 337
Summary:

JJW is to think no more about mistake [regarding Cytisus graft].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
14 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 338
Summary:

Declines invitation to accompany JJW to Crystal Palace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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