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DCP-LETT-3170

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles William Crocker
Date:
1 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.251)
Summary:

Suggests procedures for breeding experiments with hollyhocks. Recommends C. F. v. Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)]. [See also 3151]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3171

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
1 [June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 66
Summary:

Writes about dealings through John Lubbock regarding [a banking partnership for] WED.

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DCP-LETT-3172

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
1 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 42 (EH 88206486)
Summary:

William Darwin can go to Southampton any time should the banking proposition come to anything. CD is sure he would work hard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3174

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
2 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Asks for specimens of Aceras.

Mentions orchid species he has seen. Asks AGM to make observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3173

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
2 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.252)
Summary:

Discusses feral rabbits of Porto Santo. Arranges for care of rabbits while the Darwins visit Torquay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3175

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
4 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Sends queries concerning insect fertilisation of Epipactis palustris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3176

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
5 June [1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (60)
Summary:

AG’s review of John Phillips’ book [Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9].

Thinks his experiments will explain Primula dimorphism.

Insect fertilisation of orchids.

Wishes that the "greatest curse on Earth", slavery, were abolished.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
5 June [1861]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b)
Summary:

Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".

Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.

CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.

Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3178

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
6 [June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 69–70
Summary:

Writes regarding the possibility of banking partnership for WED; second note arranges a meeting between the involved parties in London.

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DCP-LETT-3177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
6 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 3 (EH 88205928)
Summary:

Arrangements for a meeting.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3179

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[8 June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 2 (EH 88205927)
Summary:

Asks to meet JL for a final talk about the banking partnership for William Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3179F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 June [1861-8]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 6)
Summary:

CD regrets he has to turn down an invitation because of his ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Walford
Date:
13 June [1861]
Source of text:
Ralph Colp Jr (private collection)
Summary:

Sends "the dates of the principal events of my Life" requested by EW [for use in his Men of the time (1862)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4533

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 June [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Sends MS on fowls for WBT’s inspection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3182

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 15 June 1861]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 15 June 1861, p. 552
Summary:

Reports his experiment with fertilising the large periwinkle (Vinca major), which he had never known to produce seed. He found that the pollen could not reach the stigma without the aid of insects, which in England never visit the flower. CD produced seeds by inserting a fine bristle, like the proboscis of a moth. Asks readers to repeat this experiment with other species that do not habitually seed and to report the result.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3182A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Field
Date:
[before 15 June 1861]
Source of text:
The Field, the Farm, the Garden, the Country Gentleman’s Newspaper 17 (1861): 521
Summary:

His thanks to "Eques" of Argyllshire for his remarkable information on the inheritance of colour in horses. Acknowledges the difficulty of defining dun. Requests further information.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3183

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bingham Sibthorpe Malden
Date:
15–16 June [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.254)
Summary:

Thanks BSM for orchid specimens. Discusses various species of Orchis and Ophrys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697)
Summary:

Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gordon
Date:
17 June [1861]
Source of text:
Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.7)
Summary:

Asks whether GG can help CD get specimens of Corallorhiza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
17 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Would be grateful for observations on orchids.

Believes Spiranthes visited by moths. Asks AGM to repeat experiment on Spiranthes.

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