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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 5–6
Summary:

More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now extinct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 2)
Summary:

Requests information about rudimentary muscles and organs in man. Asks about marrow of os coccyx, and about testes and ovaria in early embryos of both sexes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 161)
Summary:

Approves of type [for Variation]. Pleased to hear from Hooker that he is not surprised that MS is big.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 76
Summary:

Comments on MS on seed distribution sent by TB.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks BJS for W. H. Stirling’s answers [to queries about expression]

and for information on cattle and breeding of dogs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.489
Summary:

Discusses Aristotle's and Richard Whately's descriptions of the sensitivity of the eye's lateral areas. Asks JH to review cover sheet and opine whether the predictions described are miracles.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ursula Frayne
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 January 1867
Source of text:
P67/710, unit 249, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project