From J. B. Innes 20 October 1877
Summary
JBI reports that the editor of Journal of Horticulture has identified the tree at Loch Carron as Sambucus racemosa, red-berried elder.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11194 |
From J. B. Innes 1 December 1878
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11768 |
From J. B. Innes 14 July 1879
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12157 |
From J. B. Innes 19 August 1880
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12694 |
From J. B. Innes 24 August 1880
Summary
"Barnacles" [from rocks in Scottish mountains, identified as lichens],
burglar alarms,
and family news.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12698 |
From J. B. Innes 29 November 1880
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12874 |
From J. B. Innes 14 September 1881
Summary
JBI’s observations on bees and wasps. The hexagonal cells made by solitary queen wasps do not fit explanation in Origin.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13337 |
From J. B. Innes 20 September 1881
Summary
Did not intend his last letter as criticism. Is sure CD would not "wriggle out" of a difficulty if he had observed it.
Sends CD a wasps’ nest.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13343 |
From John Innes 9 January [1858–9]
Summary
Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan [1858-9] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13818 |
From [J. B. Innes] [after 8 February – August 1855]
Summary
Provides another case of apparently pure bred pointers producing litter with one setter puppy. Correspondent was told that this occurred in several litters; gives names of owners and others who can corroborate the information.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Feb – Aug 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13870 |
From John Innes [before 6 April 1861]
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3074 |
From John Innes [24 December 1861]
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Dec 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3349 |
From John Brodie Innes 2 January [1862]
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 167.1: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3370 |
From J. B. Innes 19 February [1862]
Summary
Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.
Family news.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 167.1: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3454 |
From J. B. Innes 5 May [1862]
Summary
About Quiz and [Horace Darwin’s] health.
Asks whether CD has tried W. B. Tegetmeier’s beehives.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3534 |
From J. B. Innes 16 December [1862]
Summary
News of family and friends.
Saw a white rabbit with black-tipped ears on a moor where only brown ones commonly and black ones occasionally dwell.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3863 |
From John Brodie Innes 29 August [1863]
Summary
Duke of Argyll has been dubbed "Duke Darwinii" by papers.
Large number of toads have been found in railway cuttings; wishes a scientific observer had taken pains to explain where they came from.
Comments on Scottish schools and on the morals of the adult poor.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4283 |
From J. B. Innes 4 September [1863]
Summary
Explains "Duke Darwinii" reference [in 4283].
Family news.
Writes of Scottish immorality and pious talk.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4290 |
From J. B. Innes 17 December [1863]
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4357 |
From John Brodie Innes 1 September [1867]
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5205 |