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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[July 1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

His laughers are well, and he has heard them emit an odd note.

Thinks there is an extra vertebra in the neck of the Scandaroon, but is not certain and may have blundered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 July [1856]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 175, 37–9)
Summary:

Asks for information on geographical distribution of ascidians; are any closely allied species or genera found in north and south temperate zones that do not have representatives in the tropics?

Answers some questions on [cirripede] antennae.

If THH ever sees a tree washed ashore, will he observe whether any earth is embedded between roots?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
1 July [1856]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 69)
Summary:

Requests information on ranges of echinoderms for his essay on variation [Natural selection]. Are there genera with representative species in northern and southern seas, but none in tropics?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project