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DCP-LETT-2498A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale
Date:
[22 or 29] Oct 1859
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 88); Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré (dealers) (Catalogue 55); B & L Rootenberg (dealers) (May 1991)
Summary:

Declines an invitation to visit [Moor] Park.

He hopes that Dr Lane is arranging things to his satisfaction.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2508F

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1859
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A1/242: 15–24)
Summary:

Wishes CD would enlarge on the doctrines of [Pyotr Simon] Pallas about the various races of dogs having come from several distinct wild species or sub-species.

Suggests organisms have a latent principle of improvement which is brought out by selection or breeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14226

From:
John Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 October 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0428.24; Reel 1093
Summary:

JH appointed to a committee including George Wilson, David Brewster, Clerk Maxwell, William Thomson, and William Pole to study color blindness. They will be granted £10.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8343

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth White
Date:
[22 October 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.146 (C: 23.92)
Summary:

Encloses note from R. J. Kane. JH observed oscillating wave created by small waterfall in EW's garden at Holybourne. Requests diagram and measurements of it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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