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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[June? 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 818
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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
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
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
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
3 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 839
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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
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
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
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
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 214–15
Summary:
Horrified to find he has forgotten to announce birth of daughter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 317; Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Summary:
Sorry JJW cannot visit.
Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.
Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 June [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 69–70
Summary:
Congratulations on birth of daughter. CD used to dread birth-time.
Sexual selection has turned out to be a large subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Baker Tristram
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 178: 193
Summary:
Will answer CD’s queries when he returns home in a month.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
8 [June? 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 3
Summary:
A cheque written out for FD has never been presented to CD’s bankers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rosa Follett; Rosa Bullar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 373
Summary:
Reports case of black retriever that always burrows in earth before giving birth and keeps pups in hole thereafter. CD’s book says this habit rare.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 21
Summary:
F. Müller’s corrections warrant stating that the English translation has "additions and corrections by the author".
Is gratified to hear his index [to Variation] is considered a good one.
Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1868)], though speculative, strikes him as "one of the most remarkable books of our time".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Wright; John Osmaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 163–4, DAR 85: B38, DAR 86: A95–6
Summary:
Preference of females for particular males certainly exists occasionally.
On the proportion of males to females in horses and in dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 16
Summary:
Writes about difficulties in which S. J. O. Horsman, curate at Down, has involved himself and others. Horsman has said he would resign. JBI offers to give up his interests in the living at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project