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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 176
Summary:

Whether or not there should be movement of particles according to Tyndall’s theory of glacial action ["Observations on glaciers", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 2: 54–8, 441–3].

CD subscribes to H. C. Sorby’s view of gneiss [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].

Seed-salting.

Pigeons.

Significant differences in skeletons of domesticated rabbits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 269 (Letters), DAR 162: 38
Summary:

Responds to CD’s query about the blind fauna of Mammoth Cave.

Gives information from L. Agassiz. Distribution of Crustacea, especially along southern coastlines.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Varenne Reed
Date:
8 Sept [1856]
Source of text:
Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/1)
Summary:

George is not so low at school as CD anticipated. He keeps at the top of his class, thanks to GVR’s labours.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project