From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
10 Jan [1870-1]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Is sending some books for the Linnean Society Library.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
16 Jan [1870-1]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Requests the return of some plates sent in error.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 [May 1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/13)
Summary:
Encloses part of letter from Fritz Müller on Passiflora, with seeds.
Is endeavouring to have included in next census a question as to whether the parents in each household are cousins.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
28 May [1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14)
Summary:
Fertilisation of barberries.
Passiflora.
Is continuing his experiments on the comparative growth of crossed and self-fertilised plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[29 June 1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/11)
Summary:
Encloses seeds from Fritz Müller, of a species of Passiflora, fertilised by a humble-bee.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
28 July [1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Sends five papers from J. P. M. Weale for consideration by the Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
2 [Mar 1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14a)
Summary:
Was aware of Maine’s view but never thought of its extension to morals. Cannot avoid thinking that personal property like flint tools must have "strictly belonged to individuals as much as a bone to a dog".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
4 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Report on J. P. Weale Society Paper SP1250)
Summary:
Thinks J. P. M. Weale’s papers all require great condensation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Currey
Date:
11 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Report on J. P. Weale Society paper SP1250)
Summary:
Gives his opinion on four papers by J. P. M. Weale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vernon Lushington
Date:
24 July [1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for providing turtle soup.
Not quite so sure he thanks VL for introducing Richard Buckley Litchfield into the Darwin family to be CD’s son-in-law.
Asks about the lip position of a pouting child.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
7 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (C.452)
Summary:
Refers GH to vol. 2, p. 431 of Variation for the "perplexed conclusion" at which CD has arrived on variation and design. Has nothing to add to this statement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[19 Feb 1872]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:
Sends 6th ed. of Origin;
draws attention to his criticism of ARW’s estimate of Kovalevsky;
mentions his disagreement with much of Spencer’s doctrine
and in a postscript points out an inaccuracy in an article in Once a Month.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
12 Sept 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Darwin Misc. Letters 9)
Summary:
Instructions for forwarding a parcel and outstanding issues of Transactions due him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
[after 12] Sept 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Darwin Misc. Letters 8)
Summary:
Note authorising James West to collect Transactions on CD’s behalf.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/18)
Summary:
THF’s article in Nature ["The fertilisation of a few papilionaceous flowers", 6 (1872): 478–80, 498–501] is extremely good.
Suspects he now has answer to why common peas and sweetpeas hardly ever intercross, a point which half drove CD mad for years.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
28 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/19)
Summary:
Recommends Hermann Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/20)
Summary:
Asks THF to examine old flowers of Coronilla for holes bored by bees.
Is investigating whether drops of water injure leaves.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
14 Aug 1873
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/21)
Summary:
Thinks THF has solved the mystery of Coronilla.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
1 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/17a)
Summary:
Suggests a reference to Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1 Dec 1873, p. 497, when THF takes up Coronilla.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
18 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/25)
Summary:
Thanks THF for information from Colonial Office on population statistics showing the inhabitants of some areas are far from becoming sterile.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project