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DCP-LETT-6371F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Syer Bristowe
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for his information about coloured grapes, but asks that he take no further trouble.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6375

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A14–17
Summary:

Submits a 15–point argument against CD’s views on the coloration of female birds and insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6376

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 360
Summary:

JM will send another copy of Variation to B. D. Walsh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6377

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 143: 253
Summary:

Thanks JDC for paper ["American Cervus", Trans. Ottawa Acad. Nat. Sci. (1868); read 21 May 1868].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6378

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic Higgins
Date:
18 Sept 1868
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/17/8)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for gift of game and sends remembrances to his father [John Higgins]. Would like to visit Alford and Beesby, but fears he will have neither time nor strength.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12381

From:
Emilien Frossard Pasteur
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.238
Summary:

Remembers when JH introduced him to the Museum of Geology in Jermyn St.. Would like to exchange some rocks and minerals for some English fossils. Can JH advise him to whom to write?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP4082

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 September [1868]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 82: A14-17
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/59
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • British Library, The: BL Add 46434 ff.151-152
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 223-225]
Summary:

Lays out his argument in response to Darwin's views on the colouration of females, in general terms and then specifically in relation to butterflies.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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