From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[before 10 May 1866?]
Source of text:
Jeff Weber, Rare Books (dealer) (October 2018)
Summary:
Asks for the name of a hummingbird.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 10 May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 67
Summary:
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
10 [May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 72
Summary:
Encloses letter from H. B. Geinitz, who declines to handle translation of new edition of Origin. Recommends Julius Victor Carus. Also suggests Gustav von Leonhard as translator for Origin.
Discusses translation of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Gould
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 20–1
Summary:
Gives CD genus and species names of the singular humming-bird; distressed by specific name made necessary by revised laws of nomenclature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 205
Summary:
Sends a box of orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 May [1866?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project