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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[20 March 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[24? March 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 10
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 174
Summary:
Is trying to procure some cocks for CD.
Believes Scotch deerhounds are mongrels.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Morris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 246
Summary:
Informs CD on age of land, freshwater, and marine Mollusca.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 160: 174
Summary:
Reports on breeding experiments with various seeds: corn, aubergine, kidney beans, sugar-peas. Speculates that cause of changes in seed colour in sugar-peas may be mere variation rather than result of impregnation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Hutton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1856
Source of text:
DAR 166: 283
Summary:
TH believes that the progeny of hybrid crosses, in which a domesticated or "artificial" race is involved, tend to resemble the more "natural" of their parents [see Natural selection, p. 486].
Provides some information on local hybrid domestic geese [see Natural selection, p. 439] and pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
11 Mar [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 484a
Summary:
Thanks for copy of HS’s Principles of psychology [1855].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 22 Mar 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 98: 133–9
Summary:
Gives references to works on fowls and pigeons.
Observations on Gallinaceae.
Musk ox skull from southern England is additional evidence for Agassiz’s glacial period. Owen is mistaken in calling it a buffalo.
EB describes the buffalo proper.
Will send domestic pigeon specimens.
Believes pigeons were not bred in India before the Mohammedan conquest. Describes Indian breeds.
Believes the ass is an African rather than an Asian production. Discusses various species of ass and their distribution.
Wild horned cattle on borders of Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur.
[Notes received by CD on 6 May 1856.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[Mar? 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 10 (EH 88206459)
Summary:
JL is studying Cynipidae. CD sends galls for his examination.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 March 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 354
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 March 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 246
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Roach Smith
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 March 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 325
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
William Jardine
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 March 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 184
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Roach Smith
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 March 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 326
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Bell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 March 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 18
Summary:
Sends corrected list of Podophthalma. Discusses intended journey of ‘Lester’ to Egypt.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project