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From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 159: 84
Summary:

Asks CD to have stereotype plates made of new edition of Origin [5th English], if type still standing, though Appleton will reset type if necessary. Warns there is smaller audience in the U. S. for "good scientific books".

Appleton would also like plates made of new book [Descent] when possible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Boner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 238
Summary:

Gives account of inherited blindness in a family,

and observations contravening CD’s view in Variation that sheep and other domestic animals never run wild.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
25 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 678–9)
Summary:

CD finds GB’s address interesting; assures him that he has never said GB was wrong on any point, but that there were differences between them, which he now thinks are not great.

Comments on specific parts of the address [see 6793]: colonisation, variability of large and small genera, descent from a single parent or pair of parents, rapid multiplication and change in species, isolation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William James Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0566; Reel 1053
Summary:

Questions about Indian civil law regarding Bengal promisory notes and duties on probate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[25 November 1869]
Source of text:
JHS 5.46
Summary:

Is not prepared to come to any distinct conclusions about the effect of local attractions in geodetic surveying, but talks about the problem for the whole letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 November 1869
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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From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 November 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 142-143
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project