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DCP-LETT-7765F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8018/1)
Summary:

Explains why he has declined writing a review for Messrs Appleton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7198

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 47–50
Summary:

Willy is back from New Zealand. JDH perturbed by what to do with him.

J. W. Dawson’s Bakerian lecture for Royal Society is full of errors, and JDH is forced to recommend that it not be published. [An abstract of the lecture was published: "On the pre-Carboniferous floras of north-eastern America", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 18 (1869–70): 333–5.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7199

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
[22 May 1870]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/58)
Summary:

Intends to see Adam Sedgwick.

Arranges to meet AN.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7200

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 May [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 169–72
Summary:

Concern about futures of Willy [Hooker] and Horace [Darwin].

Henrietta [Darwin] back from Cannes.

CD has been to Cambridge to visit Frank [Darwin]. Saw Sedgwick, who took him to the [Geological] Museum and utterly exhausted him. Humiliating to be "killed by a man of 86".

Saw Alfred Newton.

CD has been working away on man, to much greater length (as usual) than expected,

and on cross- and self-fertilisation.

Does JDH happen to have seeds of Canna warszewiczii matured in some hot country?

Sympathises with JDH on Dawson’s paper – amusing that Dawson hashes up E. D. Cope’s and L. Agassiz’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7201

From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 43
Summary:

Behaviour of ants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7201F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Perceval Wright
Date:
25 May [1870]
Source of text:
Malmö Museer (MM 031994)
Summary:

Thanks for copy of part one of EPW’s Spicilegia biologica (Wright 1870).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7202

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 63
Summary:

Not discouraged by F. Müller’s Passiflora.

Observations on insects visiting barberries.

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DCP-LETT-7203

From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 225
Summary:

Has finished the article [on the action of the eyelids in Ned. Arch. Geneeskd. & Natuurkd. 5 (1870), also see 7238]; summarises: the occlusion of the eyelids protects the vessels, and the eye itself, against the danger of pressure caused by excessive expiratory action. The weakness of the conclusion is that the extent of the danger caused by the pressure to the normal state of the eye is not precisely known.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7207

From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 226
Summary:

A detailed description of the physiological and anatomical processes related to the prolonged involuntary contraction of the orbicular muscles and the secretion of tears (as in retching, violent coughing, or laughing). [See Expression, p. 160.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7205

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
28 May [1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14)
Summary:

Fertilisation of barberries.

Passiflora.

Is continuing his experiments on the comparative growth of crossed and self-fertilised plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7204

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
28 May [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.379)
Summary:

Comments on QdeB’s volume [Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs Français (1870)]. Mentions error concerning his views on Parus and nuthatch.

Discusses Canis magellanicus.

Discusses reception of his views in France and Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7206

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles (Carl Ivanovich) Renard
Date:
28 May 1870
Source of text:
Stecher and Klavins 1965
Summary:

Thanks Society for honour of his election as Honorary Member.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7209

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 177: 128
Summary:

Writes of CD’s recent visit to Cambridge and the joy it gave him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6964

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 46; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 236)
Summary:

Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.

Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!

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