From T. H. Farrer 19 June 1871
Summary
Observations on orchids. Ophrys apifera; confirms CD’s observation on pollinia. The nesting of ducks in trees is an example of change of instinct and habit.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 69–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7826 |
DCP-LETT-7827
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7827 |
From T. H. Farrer 11 August 1871
Summary
Sorry he will be away when CD comes down.
Congratulations on Henrietta Darwin’s engagement.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7903 |
From T. H. Farrer 16 June 1872
Summary
Asks CD for seeds of some plants.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8390 |
From T. H. Farrer 17 October 1872
Summary
Suggests possible experiments with Pisum and Lathyrus.
Has read the article CD spoke of; the doctrine of inherited mental and corporeal qualities is most fertile.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 73 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8563 |
From T. H. Farrer [before 10 April 1874]
Summary
Observations on Coronilla.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 10 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8854 |
From T. H. Farrer 3 May 1873
Summary
Hopes affairs will enable him to get back to flowers.
Huxley’s letter [about the fund raised for him] was noble. Would like to have seen CD’s to him.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8896 |
From T. H. Farrer 12 August 1873
Summary
Observations on effect of water on leaves.
Coronilla.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9005 |
From T. H. Farrer 12 August [1873]
Summary
Further observations concerning the fertilisation of Coronilla by bees.
Reflections concerning the influence of cultivation (i.e., ploughing) upon variation.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 76a–76b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9005A |
From T. H. Farrer 3 April 1875
Summary
Payne will send vine cuttings.
Thomas Belt has been visiting; they are to meet Huxley.
He is moved by denudation of the Weald.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9913 |
To John Russell [10 July 1848]
Summary
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
| Date: | [10 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188F |
| letter | (71) |
| Farrer, T. H. | |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Grenville, G. N. | (1) |
| Head, E. W. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Heywood, James | (1) |
| Horsman, Edward | (1) |
| Kay, Joseph | (1) |
| King, P. J. L. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Percival, E. F. | (1) |
| Phillips, T. J. | (1) |
| Phillips-Jodrell, T. J. | (1) |
| Powell, Baden | (1) |
| Price, Bonamy | (1) |
| Robartes, T. J. A. | (1) |
| Senior, N. W. | (1) |
| Verney, Harry | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
| Yorke, H. G. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (70) |
| Russell, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Farrer, T. H. | |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Grenville, G. N. | (1) |
| Head, E. W. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Heywood, James | (1) |
| Horsman, Edward | (1) |
| Kay, Joseph | (1) |
| King, P. J. L. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Percival, E. F. | (1) |
| Phillips, T. J. | (1) |
| Phillips-Jodrell, T. J. | (1) |
| Powell, Baden | (1) |
| Price, Bonamy | (1) |
| Robartes, T. J. A. | (1) |
| Russell, John | (1) |
| Senior, N. W. | (1) |
| Verney, Harry | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
| Yorke, H. G. R. | (1) |
