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DCP-LETT-3802

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 75–6
Summary:

Samuel Haughton was the prejudiced reviewer of the Origin. JDH’s opinion of SH.

Has heard from a W. African collector that P. B. Du Chaillu’s accounts [Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa (1861)] are all false.

R. F. Burton has impudently stolen credit for Gustav Mann’s Cameroon expedition.

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DCP-LETT-3803

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 326
Summary:

Sends CD a specimen of the domestic pigeon of China.

Discusses a race of ducks he believes are hybrids between the Muscovy and Chinese domestic duck.

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DCP-LETT-3804

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 9
Summary:

Sends paper on affinities of Plagiaulax ["On Plagiaulax from the Purbeck beds", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].

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