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DCP-LETT-6382

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
21 Sept 1868
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 14)
Summary:

Thanks BDW for pamphlets [by S. H. Scudder and J. D. Caton].

His information about Cicada is of extraordinary interest. Discusses stridulation organs which certainly sometimes differ in the sexes. CD would be curious to know if "dumb" Cicada can breed.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6384

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Date:
22 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.36)
Summary:

Sends addition to T. H. Farrer’s [Lobelia] paper [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 2 (1868): 255–63].

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DCP-LETT-6386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 153–6)
Summary:

On their differences concerning sexual selection and protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6389

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
24 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/6)
Summary:

Informs THF that Annals and Magazine of Natural History will publish his paper [see 6384].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6390

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
24 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 147: 419
Summary:

Discusses GdeS’s studies on fossil plants;

response to Origin in France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles W Nunn
Date:
25 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.355)
Summary:

Thanks CWN for specimen. CD has sent it to Hooker for examination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6393

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 93–5
Summary:

Sends an ear of wheat with two florets of oats growing out of it. Expects it will all turn out a humbug.

Berkeley’s address in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1868): 920, also Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7] praises CD tremendously.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6395

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
28 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.343)
Summary:

Asks him to thank E. L. Layard for trouble taken.

Says Zoological Society "very foolishly" wants no specimens of domestic varieties [from Ceylon].

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