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DCP-LETT-2891

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 31–2
Summary:

Announces great ally for CD: K. E. von Baer "worth all the Owens & Bishops that ever were pupped". Quotes Baer: "J’ai énoncé les mêmes idées que M. Darwin", but based only on zoological geography.

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DCP-LETT-2897

From:
Charles-Théophile Gaudin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Aug 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 164
Summary:

Offers to supply CD with information about a new "race" of bees with a larger proboscis. They produce more honey as a result of being able to probe to greater depths.

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DCP-LETT-2898

From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 33–40
Summary:

Continues earlier discussion, admitting his opinions have been modified. Still regards natural selection as one agent of several. States areas of disagreement.

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