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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[10 December 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 13
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 186
Summary:
CD is convinced of relation between separation of sexes and tree-habit.
Recent hard blows against crossing theory.
CD long tormented by land molluscs on oceanic islands; found transport possible experimentally.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
10 [Dec 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 12
Summary:
Writes of arrangements for the end of the school-term.
Condition of Emma and the new baby [C. W. Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
10 December 1856
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/40
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 64]
Summary:
Arrival of letters from home; birth of first niece or nephew; expense of Sims's rent and financial burden to his mother; departure for Aru in two days time; diet on Aru, list of food stores to be taken, scarcity of fowl, will eat Birds of Paradise and Kangaroo; friends and family; Eliza Roberts's moustache.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project