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DCP-LETT-7266

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
5 July 1870
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002)
Summary:

Encloses a query from Camille Dareste [see 7262] about the niata ox skull CD gave to the museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5767

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
[1871?]
Source of text:
B. J. Harrison (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 15 July 2004
Summary:

Does not know rules for admission to museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons]. CD’s son [Francis] wishes much to inspect some of the preparations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8299F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rifle Volunteer Corps
Date:
23 Apr 1872
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (22 November 2011, lot 223)
Summary:

Regrets that his health will prevent his attending concerts in aid of the Rifle Corps Fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8669F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Topham
Date:
10 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (14 November 2014)
Summary:

Thanks JT for his information and hopes to attend to it in any future edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9726

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
20 Nov 1874
Source of text:
Lieutenant-Colonel James Innes (private collection); sold by Bonhams (dealers), 13 March 2002
Summary:

Asks for specimen of Aldrovanda for book on insect-eating plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10096

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
Date:
27 July 1875
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002)
Summary:

Has previously quoted details concerning the regrowth of her amputated extra digit in Variation [2: 14–15]. The case has since been disputed, so CD, who is revising his work, asks for some fuller details.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10687F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Horace Pearce
Date:
24 Nov 1876
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (27 May 2007, lot 590)
Summary:

Explains how they look after Drosera plants.

Encloses his father’s autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10967

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
19 May [1877]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (15 July 2004)
Summary:

Will be delighted to see WHF on 26th.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10759F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[7 July? 1877]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (27 November 2018, lot 85)
Summary:

Asks for Tom. 23 of the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de France to be purchased for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11711F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
John Clarke (Clarke) Hawkshaw
Date:
[before 18 Apr 1878]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (27 March 2019, lot 160)
Summary:

FD reports that CD thinks CH’s observations on limpets worth publishing (Hawkshaw 1878).

Marlborough Robert Pryor of Weston Park, Stevenage, is an admirable naturalist, especially concerning limpets.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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