From J. B. Innes 13 June 1868
Summary
Writes about difficulties in which S. J. O. Horsman, curate at Down, has involved himself and others. Horsman has said he would resign. JBI offers to give up his interests in the living at Down.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6241 |
To J. B. Innes 20 January [1868]
Summary
CD thanks JBI for contribution to Down school.
George [Darwin] has passed his examination at Cambridge;
Henrietta has been poorly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5792 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Lubbock , 14 December [1859] and 17 December [1859] ). CD refers to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood . Tromer Lodge was in the centre of Down village, about one mile from Down House (1868–9 25 " Ordnance Survey map of Kent). The property had been purchased in 1862 by Robert Haswell . Innes had tried to acquire the property in 1860 …
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1868]
Summary
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 44–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5835 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Lubbock . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 February 1868 . Hooker had enclosed letters from Henry Tibbats Stainton and Thomas Vernon Wollaston with his letter of 1 February 1868 ; the letter from Wollaston has not been found. He also sent Wollaston’s book on the Cape Verde beetles ( Wollaston 1867 ). Wollaston’s anonymous review of Origin appeared in Annals and Magazine of Natural History ( [Wollaston] 1860 ). …
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Innes, J. B. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
