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DCP-LETT-5839F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
T. S Noble
Date:
8 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Council Minute Book, vol. 3, p. 619 (2 March 1868)
Summary:

CD appreciates the honour of being elected an Honorary Member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5851

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 227
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Variation.

Discusses Pangenesis and considers CD’s "gemmules" comparable to his own hypothetical "physiological units" ["On alleged ""spontaneous generation"", and on the hypothesis of physiological units", appendix in The principles of biology, vol. 1 (1864)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5852

From:
Albany Hancock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A51–4
Summary:

On the colours of the nudibranch Mollusca. [See Descent 1: 326.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10594

From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.472
Summary:

Hopes he can have JH's vote. Would like to add JH's name to his committee, which would not involve him in any work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12827

From:
Secretaries to Beresford-Hope's Committee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0232.5; Reel 1054
Summary:

[Printed notice] Ask election support for A. J. Beresford-Hope, representing Cambridge University.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14070

From:
Frederic J. Jackson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0291; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sends copy of FJ's new theory of musical scale. Asks JH's opinion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP2105

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 February? 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 75-76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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