From T. H. Farrer 26 May 1870
Summary
Not discouraged by F. Müller’s Passiflora.
Observations on insects visiting barberries.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7202 |
To H. W. Bates [22 May 1870]
Summary
Explains why he has declined writing a review for Messrs Appleton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | [22 May 1870] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 8018/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7765F |
To Fritz Müller 12 May 1870
Summary
Crossing experiments and self-sterility [in Eschscholzia].
Pangenesis.
Hermann Müller on insect adaptations for fertilisation of flowers.
CD working on book on man and sexual selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 12 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7184 |
To T. H. Farrer 28 May [1870]
Summary
Fertilisation of barberries.
Passiflora.
Is continuing his experiments on the comparative growth of crossed and self-fertilised plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 28 May [1870] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7205 |
From James Philip Mansel Weale [25 May 1870]
Summary
Behaviour of ants.
| Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 May 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7201 |
From Federico Delpino 20 May 1870
Summary
Responds to CD’s request for Canna seeds.
Studying dichogamy in Lotus. Describes mechanism that pumps pollen on to a visiting bee. Corrects Axell on Lotus.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7196 |
From Patrick Nicol 13 May 1870
Summary
Answers to CD’s queries on expression; observations on the facial expressions of the insane.
| Author: | Patrick Nicol |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7189 |
To Charles Renard 28 May 1870
Summary
Thanks Society for honour of his election as Honorary Member.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | secretary of Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou |
| Date: | 28 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | Stecher and Klavins 1965 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7206 |
From J. D. Hooker [31 May 1870]
Summary
Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.
Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [31 May 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 46; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 236) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6964 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 May [1870]
Summary
Concern about futures of Willy [Hooker] and Horace [Darwin].
Henrietta [Darwin] back from Cannes.
CD has been to Cambridge to visit Frank [Darwin]. Saw Sedgwick, who took him to the [Geological] Museum and utterly exhausted him. Humiliating to be "killed by a man of 86".
Saw Alfred Newton.
CD has been working away on man, to much greater length (as usual) than expected,
and on cross- and self-fertilisation.
Does JDH happen to have seeds of Canna warszewiczii matured in some hot country?
Sympathises with JDH on Dawson’s paper – amusing that Dawson hashes up E. D. Cope’s and L. Agassiz’s views.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 May [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 169–72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7200 |
From J. D. Hooker [22 May 1870]
Summary
Willy is back from New Zealand. JDH perturbed by what to do with him.
J. W. Dawson’s Bakerian lecture for Royal Society is full of errors, and JDH is forced to recommend that it not be published. [An abstract of the lecture was published: "On the pre-Carboniferous floras of north-eastern America", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 18 (1869–70): 333–5.]
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 May 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 47–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7198 |
From F. C. Donders 28 May 1870
Summary
A detailed description of the physiological and anatomical processes related to the prolonged involuntary contraction of the orbicular muscles and the secretion of tears (as in retching, violent coughing, or laughing). [See Expression, p. 160.].
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 226 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7207 |
From Charles Renard 20 May 1870
Summary
Announces CD’s election as Honorary Member of the Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.
| Author: | Charles (Carl Ivanovich) Renard; Secretary, Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7195 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 28 May [1870]
Summary
Comments on QdeB’s volume [Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs Français (1870)]. Mentions error concerning his views on Parus and nuthatch.
Discusses Canis magellanicus.
Discusses reception of his views in France and Germany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 28 May [1870] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.379) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7204 |
| letter | (34) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Donders, F. C. | (3) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Appleton, C. E. C. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Donders, F. C. | (2) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Hayden, F. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
| Donders, F. C. | (5) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
