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DCP-LETT-2998

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (27)
Summary:

Has reread AG’s third Atlantic Monthly article. It is admirable, but CD cannot go as far as AG on design.

Mentions other opinions and reviews of Origin.

Relates some experiments on Drosera showing its extreme sensitivity; requests some observations on orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2999

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 76
Summary:

Preparing new edition of Origin and asks for JDH’s corrections and criticisms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3000

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Nov – 4 Dec 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 158–60
Summary:

Encourages CD’s work in vegetable physiology.

Ascending the Lebanon JDH noted limits of plant distribution as CD requested: lower limits of a genus sharper than upper. Sharpness of boundaries related to a plant’s moisture requirement.

Impressed by "sporadic" distribution at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3908

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 November 1860
Source of text:
RGO 6/410, f.376
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3909

From:
Peter Guthrie Tait
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 November 1860
Source of text:
EUL MS Gen 2169, f.53
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-60-11-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
26 November 1860
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 203, no. 516, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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