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DCP-LETT-2630

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
9 [July 1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 2)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot answer SPW’s questions.

Discusses antiquity of subaerial volcanoes.

Disagrees "entirely & absolutely" with L. von Buch’s "elevation-crater-theory".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2862

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Obadiah Westwood
Date:
9 July [1860]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections)
Summary:

Thanks JOW for the bees. The pollen-masses that were attached to one of them have unaccountably been lost.

Does not know of a paper by Charles Morren on orchids and insects, and would be glad to have the reference [see 3267, and Orchids, p. 270 n.].

Has spent so much money recently he is unwilling to subscribe for the purchase of T. V. Wollaston’s collection for the [Oxford] Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2863

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 164.1: 5
Summary:

Hyaena remains show how recently Sicily was joined to Africa.

Reports on the Oxford meeting of BAAS.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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