From:
Frederick Bond
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16? June 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 76 (ser. 2): 168
Summary:
Observations on moths visiting flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Bond
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1860
Source of text:
DAR 76 (ser. 2): 169
Summary:
Hopes to make observations on moths pollinating clovers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
H. J. H. Bond
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 June 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 31
Summary:
Discusses payment of student fees for Cambridge lectures and says JSH’s fees are too low. Thanks JSH for allowing Bond’s daughter to attend his lectures.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
H. J. H. Bond
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 32
Summary:
Discusses JSH’s attendance at Cambridge University medical examinations, for students who need to be examined in botany as well. Need for attendance uncertain.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 27–8
Summary:
Returns paper by Asa Gray [? "Review of Darwin’s theory", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].
Greatly admires Origin.
Can follow effects of natural selection in Carex, but when CD brings millions of years into play, he is like Church which demands faith. FB cannot believe in divinity of Christ, resurrection, or miracles.
Contributor:
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From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 217
Summary:
Habits of ducks when sleeping on water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May–June 1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 297
Summary:
Cannot supply a case of atavism in canaries.
Will lend CD back issues of Cottage Gardener.
Cites case of bird (tumbler hen) laying egg in another’s nest.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Bridges
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Oct 1860 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 85: 39
Summary:
Answers to queries on expression with respect to Fuegians.
Contributor:
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From:
Sir B. Brodie
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 September 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 39
Summary:
Thanks JSH for account of his activities in Hitcham. Says he is unable to visit JSH in October as he is going to the seaside. Comments on the poor harvest, saying it must be bad in JSH’s part of Suffolk. States that potato harvest has been worse than ever, and he is planting the Chinese yam as a replacement.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 or 15] Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 317
Summary:
Does not remember his criticisms of CD’s theory. Can CD locate them in book?
Criticises analogy between knowledge of electricity and knowledge of origin of life.
Explains A. E. Brehm’s concept of subspecies. Discusses subspecies of Certhia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26
Summary:
On the Origin. Before expressing his disagreements, CJFB praises CD’s labour, patience, fairness, and other qualities which make the work "one of the most important that has ever appeared in Natural History". [See 2690.]
Contributor:
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
29 February 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 75
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 May 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 73
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
W. B.. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 76
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
William B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
31 March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 74
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
John Cattell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 5 May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 53.2: 167r
Summary:
Future orders will be highly esteemed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Cattell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1860
Source of text:
DAR 77: 171–2a
Summary:
Cannot provide plants CD requested.
Has sowed several kinds of lettuce seed near each other and has never observed them to cross naturally [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 173 n.].
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Christy
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 90
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
William Clark
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 95
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 6, 58.2: 49–52
Summary:
Sends CD passages from A. S. Taylor’s book [On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 2d ed. (1859)], citing smallest portions of poisons that are chemically detectable. "Drosera beats the chemists hollow."
Contributor:
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