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DCP-LETT-3230

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
13 [Aug 1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.260)
Summary:

Thanks CL for orchids acquired from a collector.

Discusses role of Providence in variation. Does CL honestly think it applies to variations in domestication? If not ordained there, sees no reason for it in nature either.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3231

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 110
Summary:

Personal regards.

William Darwin will make a botanist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3232

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
13 [Aug 1861]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Has found hundreds of Spiranthes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6682

From:
John Henry Dallmeyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 August 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.1
Summary:

Thanks for his note on the performance of the telescope. Gives suggested reasons for faults. Sends a print of a photograph of a map recently taken by one of his achromatic lenses.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-61-08-13

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
13 August 1861
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 203 no. 519, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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