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DCP-LETT-4794

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.307)
Summary:

Mentions Miss Buckley’s information on roosting in trees [see Variation 1: 181 n.].

Refers to Duke [of Argyll] and his Lamarckian view of change.

Roosting habits and behaviour of pigeons in Egypt.

Criticises Herbert Spencer’s works.

Has finished Elements; comments on Laurentian stages.

Remarks on his health

and forthcoming work [Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4796

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 178: 65
Summary:

Sends copies of the Field containing all the pigeon articles [see 4785].

Luke Wells will undertake engravings for Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4797

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
27 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Field Musuem of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 3)
Summary:

Comments on BDW’s papers ["On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 207–49; "On insects inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow", ibid. 3 (1864): 543–644]; much is new to CD.

Asks about wide-ranging insect genera,

Rocky Mt. wingless insects,

willow hybrids,

galls,

and other subjects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Arrangements for woodcuts for Variation.

WBT’s excellent article on crossing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4799

From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 9
Summary:

University has at last provided room for a small zoological museum. The Philosophical Society might donate its collections to it, including CD’s fishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4800

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 81
Summary:

He encloses a portrait and asks for one of CD.

He has sent mimetic paper to B. D. Walsh.

Mentions work at Royal Geographical Society on N. Pole business [plans for an Arctic expedition, eventually postponed until 1875–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4801

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
31 Mar [1865]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 131–135)
Summary:

Has made progress [on Variation]. Hopes it will go to press in the autumn. Lists his needs for cuts to be made – altogether 50.

Supposes Origin has ceased selling. Would be sorry to have labour of another edition. A new French edition is wanted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4802

From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1865
Source of text:
DAR 181: 175
Summary:

It is Bos arni which dives for herbage and in so doing it also swallows many freshwater shrimps.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4803

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Mar – 7 Apr 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 62, 66
Summary:

WBT’s eye is getting on very well.

Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4530

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
1 March 1865
Source of text:
RI MS F1 G2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4531

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
the Managers of the Royal Institution
Date:
1 March 1865
Source of text:
RI MS F1 G1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4532

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
7 March 1865
Source of text:
RI MS F1 G3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4533

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Pigott
Date:
9 March 1865
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/109
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4534

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Pigott
Date:
9 March 1865
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/109
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4535

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Henry Pepper
Date:
11 March 1865
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4536

From:
William Pigott
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 March 1865
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/109
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4537

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
David Brewster
Date:
mid March 1865
Source of text:
Bence Jones (1870a), 2: 472-3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4538

From:
Henry Cole
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 March 1865
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4539

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Mary Deacon
Date:
26 March 1865
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/2/6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4540

From:
Mary Ann Phillips
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 March 1865
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/109
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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