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Herschel2485

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 June 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.339
Summary:

Will publish JH's article on musical scales in October issue[?] of his journal (Quarterly Journal of Science). Discusses JH's opinions on copyrights.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000002

From:
Justus Liebig
To:
JLW Thudichum
Date:
1 June 1868
Source of text:
MM/1/2, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-6221

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
1 June 1868
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Fellows Files No. 6)
Summary:

Requests 50 copies of his paper ["Offspring of illegitimate unions of di- and trimorphic plants", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 393–437].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000885

From:
Warren de la Rue
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
1 June 1868
Source of text:
MM/14/155, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-6221A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
1 June 1868
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:

Encloses some queries.

Would also like information about proportion of male to female humming-birds.

Reference to OS’s paper in Ibis, vol. 2.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6526

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bryceson Brothers & Co.
Date:
[after June 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 68
Summary:

Reports the whereabouts of S. J. O’H. Horsman, who has failed to pay for an organ he ordered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5747

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[after June 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 54
Summary:

Testimonial for James Archer, who leaves CD’s service after six months.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6223

From:
Samuel James O’Hara Horsman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 270
Summary:

Resigns curacy of Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14093

From:
Thomas R. Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0311; Reel 1087
Summary:

Additional biographical notes on W. R. Dawes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6222

From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 96: 48
Summary:

Progress of CD’s order for certain books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6225

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel James O’Hara Horsman
Date:
3 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 96: 47
Summary:

Thinks SJOH is right not to return to Down. Asks him to forward certain documents. Hopes final arrangements will soon be made for a resident clergyman in Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6224

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
3 June 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 24)
Summary:

Is glad FM approves of a translation of Für Darwin.

Hopes FM will think well of Pangenesis.

Sexual differences in insect auditory and stridulating organs.

Read FM’s paper on Balanus with great interest ["On Balanus armatus", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 1 (1868): 393–412].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6226F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
3 June 1868
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68–9
Summary:

As JS’s powers of observation seem to exist in all lines, CD begs further information from him and [H. N. B.] Erskine about the natives’ expressions of indignation, affirmation, and negation. The movements of the eyebrows and forehead of a girl in violent grief are of particular interest.

Do sub-breeds of pigeons exist in India as in Europe, but not in England? If so, what is the colour of the plumage in males and females at different stages of development?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6226

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 78
Summary:

Plumage of canaries; changes in plumage with successive moults.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6229

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 42
Summary:

Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6228

From:
Edward Westey Janson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A101–2
Summary:

Sends specimens of Coleoptera.

Quotes from W. F. Erichson [Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands 3: 927] on stridulating organs in Trox.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6227

From:
George Rogers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 193
Summary:

Suggests variation in seed-covering membranes as a cause of variation in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1158

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
4 June 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.111-112, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-6227F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
4 June 1868
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Asks about camouflage of birds in the Sahara desert.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6230

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
5 June 1868
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/3)
Summary:

"I have seen the action on Ophrys exactly as you describe and am thoroughly ashamed of my inaccuracy."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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