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DCP-LETT-2695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
14 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.197)
Summary:

Thanks PLS for information about variation in birds. Asks for more information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 40
Summary:

Huxley’s Royal Institution lecture on Origin [10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] an "entire failure" as an exposition of CD’s doctrine.

R. I. Murchison very civil.

CD counts Lyell among the converted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2697

From:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 205.4: 100
Summary:

Questions how natural selection can explain why some cells remain simple and others are modified into highly complex structures.

Reports on the spread in Ceylon of a recently introduced plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
14 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library DC AL 1/7)
Summary:

Thanks HGB for agreeing to superintend translation of Origin.

Comments on HGB’s review.

Encloses corrections and preface for Schweizerbart. Discusses translation of term "natural selection".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3727

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 February 1860
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/3/108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel6310

From:
B. Birkenthal
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.71
Summary:

Is asking JH for assistance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP4279

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
14 February 1860
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1860). [Extracts from letters from Alfred R. Wallace to Samuel Stevens dated 26 Nov. 1859, Awaiya, Ceram, 31 Dec. 1859, Passo, Amboyna, and 14 Feb. 1860, Passo]. Ibis : 2 (7): 305-306 [p. 306]
Summary:

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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