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To John Russell   [10 July 1848]

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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

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Wedgwood, K. E. (1839–1931)

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Erskine, Frances (1833–70)

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  • Hensleigh. 1980. The Wedgwood circle, 1730–1897: four generations of a family and their friends. London: Studio Vista. 4,7,16,17,18,19,20 Wedgwood, F. M. Farrer, T. H. …

From T. H. Farrer   12 August [1873]

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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

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To James Caird   24 March 1880

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Encloses a statement regarding the progress of Torbitt’s potato experiments, and discusses the handling of the fund CD holds for Torbitt.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Caird
Date:  24 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 52: E7a, E9–14, E16v
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12546

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  • Farrer had given £25 to Torbitt’s scheme, Charles and Alfred Morrison £25 each, Caird £5 and Julian Goldsmid £5; see letter from T. H. Farrer, 8 March 1880 and enclosure. CD’s brother-in-law was Hensleigh Wedgwood ; see letter to T. H. Farrer, …

From T. H. Farrer   4 June 1868

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Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.

Author:  Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 June 1868
Classmark:  DAR 164: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6229

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  • Hensleigh Wedgwood at Cumberland Place in London from 29 May to 4 June ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); Post Office London directory 1868). On Ophrys muscifera (the fly ophrys), see the letter from T.  H.  Farrer, …