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DCP-LETT-3092

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 61
Summary:

Sends his paper ["Insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 2d ser. 5 (1861): 223–8, 335–61].

Points out three areas of interest arising from the study of the species of Papilio: the derivation of the fauna, the variability of the species, and the permanence of local varieties.

Discusses J. S. Baly’s views on specific differences in reproductive organs [Catalogue of the Hispidae in the collection of the British Museum (1858)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3094

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
20 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (9–10 July 2018, lot 374)
Summary:

Comments on LH’s "Anniversary Address of the President", [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 17 (1861): xxxi–lxxii]. Notes LH’s comments on metamorphism, antiquity of man, and the Bible. Thanks him for his remarks on Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3095

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
22 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks whether WBT will read over his MS sketch on poultry when done.

Wants rabbit specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3096

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
23 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.241)
Summary:

Asks about distribution of Gallus and about description of Gallus temminckii, G. R. Gray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3097

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
23 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 4 (EH 88205988); Christie’s Images (Christie’s (dealers) 11 November 1998, lot 30)
Summary:

CD will publish on Primula [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Will DO ask W. H. Fitch to make woodcuts of "pin" and "non-pin" primroses [i.e., long-styled and short-styled forms]? Encloses a sketch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.242)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for book on old bones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3100

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
26 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Comments on the great extent of variations and on the acknowledgment of the new idea of greater female variety.

Expresses belief that the glacial period did affect the tropics, though HWB’s arguments have confounded him.

Poses a series of questions concerning sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3101

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 92
Summary:

Henslow is dying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3102

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 93
Summary:

H. W. Bates’s excellent article against glacial period [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1860): 352–3] leaves CD "dumbfounded".

H. C. Watson’s hostility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3103

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
28 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for agreeing to read MS.

Outlines poultry breeding experiment he would like to see tried.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3103F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[28 Mar – 14 Apr 1861]
Source of text:
Max Rambod (dealer) (February 2008)
Summary:

Asks for some unspecified items to be sent to him. The Half-lop [rabbit] should be killed, but without damaging the skull. Has not opened the box with skulls yet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3104

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1861
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 62
Summary:

Discusses specific varieties, especially geographic varieties.

Comments on the effects of the glacial age on the tropics.

Sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001428

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
26 March 1861
Source of text:
MM/19/25, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday3958

From:
William George Armstrong
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 March 1861
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3959

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
6 March 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/2/89
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3960

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Enfield Roscoe
Date:
7 March 1861
Source of text:
RSC MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3961

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Grey
Date:
12 March 1861
Source of text:
Bod MS Autogr b.3 f.49
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3962

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Paolo Volpicelli
Date:
12 March 1861
Source of text:
ANL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3963

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 March 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/5, f.168
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3964

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
14 March 1861
Source of text:
RGO 6/410, f.384-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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