From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Michael Jenkins
Date:
[after 1 Oct 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 50
Summary:
Feels there is little he could say as a testimonial for HMJ.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 5 (EH: 88205943)
Summary:
Asks JT to distribute some circulars about the work of Gustavus Hinrichs of Iowa, whom CD wishes to help.
Admires JT’s Norwich address [to Mathematics and Physics Section, BAAS meeting, Rep. BAAS 38: 1–6] and his Fortnightly Review paper on scientific discovery [7 (1867): 645–60].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
9 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 146: 431
Summary:
Pleased HM says good words for Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 6 (EH: 88205944)
Summary:
Invites JT to come to Down with the Asa Grays and Hookers.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
22 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 341
Summary:
Fears copy of AW’s publication [Über die Berechtigung der Darwin’schen Theorie (1868)] lost in mail. Asks for another.
Glad AW approves of his work
and objects to Nägeli’s law of perfection.
Thinks Moritz Wagner overrates necessity for emigration and isolation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
17 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 320
Summary:
Enjoyed JJW’s visit.
Interested in changes in plumage of pheasants.
Still at work on sexual selection in birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project