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DCP-LETT-3043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
5 June [1861]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b)
Summary:

Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".

Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.

CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.

Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cuthbert Collingwood
Date:
14 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS. 37725, ff. 6–9b)
Summary:

CD is not surprised at CC’s entire rejection of his views. Agrees that there is no direct proof of unlimited variation. Says natural selection should be viewed as comparable to wave theory of light: it is probable because it groups and explains a host of facts in several fields of science.

Agrees Louis Agassiz’s review [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 30 (1860): 142–55] is not unfair, but Agassiz misunderstands CD. His "categories of thought" are to CD merely empty words.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3954

From:
Richard Bentley
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 February 1861
Source of text:
BL add MS 46642, pp.389-90
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4003

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
17 May 1861
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.66
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4008

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts
Date:
23 May 1861
Source of text:
BL add MS 85284, f.67
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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