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WCP3094

From:
[William] [Spottiswoode]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 July 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 32
Summary:

Invitation for ARW to meet the Emperor of Brazil.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7875

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
20 July 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.402)
Summary:

Letter of introduction for his sons [G. H. and Francis Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7876

From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 173: 68
Summary:

Will send Ophrys apifera var. lutea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7877

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 61–2
Summary:

Has given CD’s name to a species of Abutilon found by Fritz Müller.

Pleased at Henrietta [Darwin]’s engagement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7878

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 July [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 199–200
Summary:

Honoured by Abutilon name; describes observations on its fertilisation.

Henrietta’s marriage a great loss to him.

Latest Quarterly Review has article, "evidently by Mivart", that cuts CD into mincemeat.

Asks for name of species of mouse J. S. Henslow used to keep [see 598].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7879

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 264
Summary:

Identifies Henslow’s mouse that used tail as prehensile climbing organ as Mus messorius.

Has not seen the Quarterly Review.

Inquires after Lyell’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7880F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vernon Lushington
Date:
24 July [1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for providing turtle soup.

Not quite so sure he thanks VL for introducing Richard Buckley Litchfield into the Darwin family to be CD’s son-in-law.

Asks about the lip position of a pouting child.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-07-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
25 July 1871
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 209, no. 582, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7882

From:
H. G. Cavendish Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 328
Summary:

Reports that a humble-bee fertilised a tropical orchid in his hothouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 July [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 201
Summary:

Thanks for information about Henslow’s mouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7883

From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 178: 188
Summary:

Hopes to visit during CD’s stay at Haredene.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7884

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
27 July 1871
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 70)
Summary:

Invites RT to call on him while he is staying at Haredene.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7885

From:
Theodor Piderit
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 174: 43
Summary:

Interested in forthcoming Expression.

Sends publications.

Describes physiological theory of mental activity. Asks for CD’s opinion of his theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7886

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July [1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 5
Summary:

Wants CD to sign an enclosure [missing] and get the signatures of other family members.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7887

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
[after 29 July 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 5
Summary:

Asks [EAD] to get signatures as opportunity offers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7888

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 325
Summary:

Shocked at Lyell’s appearance and speech.

Family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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