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DCP-LETT-4014F

From:
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 229: 10
Summary:

A diploma. CD is elected a corresponding member.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4015

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 108: 178
Summary:

Answers CD’s query on Primula longiflora and P. scotica.

Would like abstract of CD’s paper ["Two forms of Linum", Collected papers 2: 93–105] for Natural History Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4016

From:
Thomas Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 181: 178
Summary:

Regrets he did not make the statement [unspecified] referred to by CD.

Believes the Origin has been very valuable, even among those not disposed to agree with transmutation, in giving a great check to "species manufacture".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4017

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 37
Summary:

Will come to dine on Monday unless he hears to the contrary.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4052

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 41 (EH 88206024)
Summary:

Having trouble understanding laws of phyllotaxy in order to grasp Hugh Falconer’s objections.

L. C. Treviranus on Primula [see 3980] misses the "prettiness" of the adaptations.

John Scott says P. scotica is never dimorphic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4085

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
[12 Feb 1863?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7656: D76
Summary:

Thanks GGS for calculation [to determine the chances of the same peculiarity recurring in a family, see Variation 2: 5]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8770

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 20
Summary:

DO thinks an essay [Alexander Braun’s "Rejuvenescence", Ray Society (1853)] is not worth reading with respect to some difficulty concerning phyllotaxy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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