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DCP-LETT-6435

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
29 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/9)
Summary:

Suggests THF write a paper on violets. Asa Gray, once a sceptic, now declares he is convinced whole structure of a flower is adapted for a cross with another individual.

Urges THF not to give up Pangenesis lightly. "It has thrown light on my mind in regard [to] a great series of complex phenomena."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6436

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 189; DAR 193: 112; DAR 83: 187, DAR 84.1: 128–30, DAR 86: A87–9
Summary:

Thanks CD for a recent letter.

Reports on his health, which has been bad for 12 months.

Sends extracts of works on domestication.

Discusses the pairing of various birds; comments on the pugnacity of partridges, pheasants, male guinea-fowl, and peacocks.

Gives proportions of sexes in pheasants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6441

From:
Samuel (Sam) Sanday
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
29 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B22–23
Summary:

Information on proportion of sexes born in sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1472

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
29 October 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.275, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-68-10-29

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 October 1868
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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