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DCP-LETT-6205

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
25 May [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks for note about enlarged left arm of Gelasimus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6206

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 164
Summary:

CD’s book taking on famously. AG’s review in Nation [see 5921] and preface to American edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
25 May 1868
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.186–189)
Summary:

Asks JM to consider publishing a MS on John Wesley by CD’s niece, Frances Julia Wedgwood [John Wesley and the evangelical reaction of the eighteenth century (1870)].

Has received clean sheets for Italian translation [of Variation?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6208

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 142: 49a, 52
Summary:

Describes change of plumage in chickens in order to be sure he is clear about the age of chickens on which CD wants information. Encloses feathers to illustrate changes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6209

From:
Edward Westey Janson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: 99–100
Summary:

Sends specimens selected by H. W. Bates.

Among the Lamellicornes the family Dynastidae have most instances of presence of stridulating organs; Frederick Smith says that in Hymenoptera female Mutilla has stridulating faculty in high degree.

[Itemised bill for Coleoptera specimens enclosed.]

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