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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Encloses letter [from A. R. Wallace?] about the Reader.
Wants his opinion of a letter from Fritz Müller on climbing plants.
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
Is working one hour a day now, on illegitimate seedlings of Lythrum and Primula.
Begins to doubt John Scott’s accuracy about primrose and cowslip.
Does JDH believe in Karsten’s denial of parthenogenesis of Coelebogyne?
Will explain about the so-called hybrids of Lythrum when they meet.
JDH should not be proposed for Copley Medal this year because Royal Society Council has so few naturalists on it.
