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DCP-LETT-4712

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 256
Summary:

Has found incipient stages of adhesive discs in Hanburia tendrils.

Huxley was probably right to have challenged Sabine, but the poor old man is sick.

CD remembers the old Disraeli novel [Tancred (1847)] that sneers at transmutation.

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DCP-LETT-4713

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:
11 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 7 (EH 88206059)
Summary:

Asks for comparison of otter-hounds’ feet with those of other dogs.

Changes in oysters.

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DCP-LETT-4714

From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 357
Summary:

Sorry to hear CD ill.

On his return from Galway, will arrange with CD about visiting and showing him his specimens.

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DCP-LETT-4715

From:
Leo Lesquereux
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with G256)
Summary:

Fossil flora of the Carboniferous. Variation of forms found in coal analogous to succession of forms in peat-bogs.

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DCP-LETT-4716

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 62 (EH 88206045)
Summary:

Requests addresses of J. E. Planchon, W. F. Hofmeister and M. J. Schleiden so he can send them copies of Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

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DCP-LETT-4717

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B37–8
Summary:

Sends a power of attorney to be executed and sent to the Old Bank; asks acknowledgment.

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DCP-LETT-4717F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:
15 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/8)
Summary:

Would be delighted to see FB for a few minutes but his health is so poor he doubts it would be worth the trouble for FB to visit.

Thanks about the otter-hound.

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DCP-LETT-4718

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 29
Summary:

Sends addresses of Planchon, Hofmeister, and Schleiden.

Hermann Crüger left no widow.

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DCP-LETT-4719

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 49
Summary:

Vexed at the address of the President of the Royal Society [on award of Copley medal to CD].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4720

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
21 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD working on Variation; he will soon want corrected fowl MS [Variation, ch. 7].

WBT’s breeding experiments produced no sterility.

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DCP-LETT-4721

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
21 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 60 (EH 88206504)
Summary:

The Copley medal. Sabine’s Presidential Address and Huxley’s response.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4724

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
29 Dec [1864?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32)
Summary:

Asks TCE to verify whether otter-hounds have more skin between their toes than other hounds. Also interested in cases of infertile matings between normally fertile individuals.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4725

From:
John Struthers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 267
Summary:

Sends CD part two of his anatomical papers [Anatomical and physiological observations (1863) [part 1 (1854)]]; thinks CD may be interested in the paper dealing with variation in numbers of digits in man. Draws CD’s attention to another variation: the occurrence of a supra-condyloid process in the human arm.

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DCP-LETT-4694

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine; Royal Society of London
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 388)
Summary:

Thanks ES for his "splendid eulogium" [in Presidential Address to Royal Society on award of Copley Medal]. CD would have liked him to have said "a little more" about Origin.

CD feels no doubt about natural selection. Has heard from Germany of "a string of excellent men" who accept it.

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