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From J. B. Innes   19 August 1880

Summary

Sends specimens of what he takes to be barnacles found on rocks in the mountains.

Author:  John Brodie Innes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Aug 1880
Classmark:  DAR 167: 36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12694

To J. B. Innes   23 August [1880]

Summary

JBI’s "barnacles" would have been extraordinary, but they are hard lichens.

Has revisited Cambridge.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  23 Aug [1880]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12696

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

Summary

Has heard that land may be available for parsonage at Down.

Author:  John Brodie Innes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Nov 1880
Classmark:  DAR 167: 38
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12874

To J. B. Innes   2 December 1880

Summary

Hensleigh Wedgwood has told CD that land JBI had inquired about will be sold at auction with the house [Trowmer [Tromer!?] Lodge].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  2 Dec 1880
Classmark:  Elizabeth Margaret Elliott Lucas (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12881

From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes   24 December [1880]

Summary

News of the opening of the reading room at Down. CD is pleased Innes was interested in his book; both Innes’s facts are new to him.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  John Brodie Innes
Date:  24 Dec [1880]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12935F
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