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DCP-LETT-2015

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Harriet Hotham; Harriet Lubbock
Date:
[8 Dec 1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.141)
Summary:

Thanks her for kindness. Announces, "We have now half-a-dozen Boys" [Charles Waring Darwin, born 6 Dec].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2016

From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 378
Summary:

Agassiz has informed him that the mice and rats of Mammoth Cave are American in type.

Alludes to CD’s doubt of the principle that "progress of life on the globe is parallel with the development in different tribes". Outlines his own ideas on the "unfolding of the type-idea" and its "parallelism with the law of development in the embryo".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1308

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
8th, Dec, 1856
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/3968, RI
Summary:

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Tyndall Project
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