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From:
Darwin, E. A.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
9 October 1861
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[30 January 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 36
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[13 February 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 37
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[21 February 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[25 February 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 39
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[1 March 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 40
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[24 April 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[30 April 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 42
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[2 May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 43
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[21 May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 44
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[26 May 1861?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 June 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 46
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Crawfurd
Date:
25 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 299
Summary:

Asks for information about JC’s essay, "On the relation of the domesticated animals to civilisation" [read at BAAS meeting 1859].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 162
Summary:

Gives CD an instance of facts that can be read either way as to whether a plant (Veronica humifusa) is a species or a variety.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[17 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 49
Summary:

Difficulty of distinguishing varieties and species. Did HCW suggest a printed list that might help?

Polymorphic genera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
22 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 5 (EH 88205989)
Summary:

Thanks for mentioning J. G. Kurr on nectaries [Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen (1833)]. Requests observations on flowers with curved pistils. Finds they curve toward nectary, thus lying in path of insect.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Fawcett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 29–30
Summary:

Elaborates on his article ["A popular exposition of Mr Darwin on the origin of species", Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92]. Was anxious to point out that CD’s method of investigation is philosophically correct. Asks permission to call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[before 5 Feb 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40c (EH 88206451)
Summary:

Comments on JL’s paper ["Notes on the generative organs, and on the formation of the egg in the Annulosa", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 11 (1860–2): 117–24].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 225–6
Summary:

List of references on orchid structure and fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 18–21
Summary:

Responds to CD’s inquiries about rattlesnake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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