From H. B. Jones 10 February [1866]
Summary
Sends a diet for CD’s flatulence.
| Author: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5003 |
From Charles John Robinson [1866?]
Summary
Has a small living at Norton Canon.
Will visit Charles Whitley next week.
| Author: | Charles John Robinson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1866?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4966 |
From George Henslow 8 March 1866
Summary
Reviewing C. V. Naudin’s article ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 19 (1863): 180–203] for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 304–13]. Requests references.
Proposes to visit Down on Easter weekend.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5029 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
| letter | (4) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Robinson, C. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Robinson, C. J. | (1) |
