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DCP-LETT-4630

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 251
Summary:

Huxley has answered Kölliker in Natural History Review [(1864): 566–80].

CD is correcting two of Scott’s papers; is convinced primrose and cowslip are two good species.

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DCP-LETT-4633

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Buxton
Date:
12 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A36–7
Summary:

Has heard that the yeast in CB’s brewery has failed. Asks for confirmation and answers to some questions.

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DCP-LETT-4642

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 252
Summary:

To Lyell’s chagrin, CD has come round again to A. C. Ramsay’s glacial theory.

On primrose and cowslip, CD maintains they are good species, notwithstanding Scott’s work.

CD defines species by power of remaining constant for a good long time and showing appreciable amount of difference from close species.

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