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DCP-LETT-1199

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henri Milne-Edwards
Date:
1 Sept [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.76)
Summary:

Describes his cirripede work. Asks whether HM-E can arrange for him to borrowspecimens, especially of species described in Dumont d’Urville, Voyage of"Astrolabe" [1830–2]. Lists species that interesthim.

Compliments HM-E on his Crustacés [1834–40].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1621

From:
Edmund Saul (Eugene Sebastian Delamer) Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept–Oct 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 214
Summary:

He can distinguish varieties of guinea-fowl as soon as birds are hatched.

Behaviour of Malay hens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel14064

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Patrick Francis Robertson
Date:
[1848-9 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0285.2 & Adraft inc: TxU:H/M-0295.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Questions about PR's proposals regarding gold currency. Proposal 6, if unlimited, means that government will always buy [Consale?] at 90.5 and sell at 91.5, regardless of commercial market price.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP7080

From:
João Augusto Correio
To:
José Antonio Correio Seixus
Date:
[September] [1848]
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1853). In: A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley . London: Reeve & Co. [pp. 58-59]
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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