To J. D. Hooker 24 June [1868]
Summary
Thanks for name of grass.
Plans to go to Isle of Wight on 17 July.
Frank cannot come to Kew, as he will be reading this long vacation at Cambridge.
Delighted with Bentham’s Presidential Address [Linnean Society, 1868].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 June [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 74–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6259 |
To Bryceson Brothers & Co. [after June 1868?]
Summary
Reports the whereabouts of S. J. O’H. Horsman, who has failed to pay for an organ he ordered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bryceson Brothers & Co. |
| Date: | [after June 1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6526 |
To Frederick Bates 19 June [1868?]
Summary
"Though next Spring will be rather late, I do not think it will be too late, & if in your power to send me some living specimens of Trox sabulosus, I shd. be greatly indebted to you.––-"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Bates |
| Date: | 19 June [1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6787A |
From T. H. Farrer 4 June 1868
Summary
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 |
To T. H. Farrer 5 June 1868
Summary
"I have seen the action on Ophrys exactly as you describe and am thoroughly ashamed of my inaccuracy."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Date: | 5 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6230 |
From Rosa Bullar 9 June 1868
Summary
Reports case of black retriever that always burrows in earth before giving birth and keeps pups in hole thereafter. CD’s book says this habit rare.
| Author: | Rosa Follett; Rosa Bullar |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 373 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6237 |
From John Wright 11 June 1868
Summary
Preference of females for particular males certainly exists occasionally.
On the proportion of males to females in horses and in dogs.
| Author: | John Wright; John Osmaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 163–4, DAR 85: B38, DAR 86: A95–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6240 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (2) |
| Weir, J. J. | (2) |
| Bates, Frederick | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Weir, J. J. | (4) |
| Innes, J. B. | (3) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (3) |
