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DCP-LETT-3626

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Thomas Gold Appleton
Date:
28 June [1862]
Source of text:
James G. Zimmer (private collection)
Summary:

CD too ill to write.

He thanks Appleton for most beautiful work of natural history he has ever seen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5733

From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.222
Summary:

Has been ill, which accounts for the delay in answering his letter. Has applied for the position at Addiscombe. Remarks concerning volcanoes and his own and JH's queries regarding them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3624

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 42–3
Summary:

M. J. Berkeley wrote London Review & Wkly J. Polit. article.

CD is "out of sight the best physiological observer and experimenter that Botany ever saw".

Laments how much he [JDH] missed when doing the Listera ["Functions and structure of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].

Illness of wife and father.

"More plants from Fernando Po and more European".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3625

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 195
Summary:

Has seen Francis Walker, who has identified CD’s two Hymenoptera species ["caught in Musk Orchis" – CD note].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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