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DCP-LETT-7211

From:
Thomas William Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 26 June 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 146
Summary:

Is surprised to find CD disagrees about the argus [see 7229]. TWW finds others he has consulted, including Edward Blyth, agree with him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7246

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 293
Summary:

Tells of his health and family matters.

Congratulates CD on being honoured by Oxford.

Discusses the state of Tierra del Fuego and the success of missionaries there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7247

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 181: 82
Summary:

On behaviour of birds when frightened and when threatening.

Purple Cytisus grafted onto yellow stock produces some yellow flowers.

Mutations in rabbits.

Cites case of variegated leaf form of one plant apparently spreading to a neighbour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7249

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: B160–1
Summary:

[William Rathbone] Greg is author [of "Failure of ""natural selection"" in the case of man", Fraser’s Magazine 78 (1868): 353–62].

Comments on findings in J. M. Duncan [Fecundity, fertility, sterility and allied topics (1866)].

Saw A. D. Bartlett about monkeys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7248

From:
William Robson Scott
To:
Edward Burnett Tylor
Date:
28 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 124
Summary:

Speculates on the origin of gestures representing good and bad or approval and disapproval;

discusses signs used in teaching the deaf and dumb, particularly the use of opposites [see 7244].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10803

From:
Edward Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
29 June [1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.158
Summary:

Has been intending to write to inform him of the successful meeting on Friday, but the four day holiday has caused extra work. JH's consent to preside provided extra stimulus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7250

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[29 June 1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/11)
Summary:

Encloses seeds from Fritz Müller, of a species of Passiflora, fertilised by a humble-bee.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7254

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 65
Summary:

Has procured a Passiflora flower at last. Structure suited for humming-birds rather than bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7251

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 173
Summary:

Asks whether JDH can send seeds of Hibiscus africanus and of Nolana prostrata raised at Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7252

From:
Edward Caldwell Rye
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 229
Summary:

Draws CD’s attention to a paper in American Naturalist [3 (1869): 109] describing honey-bees killed by entanglement in pollen-masses of Asclepias.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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-7255

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Winwood Reade
Date:
30 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 79–80
Summary:

Thanks WWR for information on the Nehro idea of beauty and other facts relating to expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7256

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
30 June [1870]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.

In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".

Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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