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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
27 Jan 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.360)
Summary:

Thanks JP for his book Vesuvius [1869].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Friedrich Claus
Date:
28 Jan 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 205–207)
Summary:

Thanks CC for two memoirs [see 6575. The other was possibly "Die Cypris-ähnliche Larve der Cirripedien", Schr. Ges. Beförd Naturw. Marburg (1869)].

Haeckel is too enthusiastic and too bold in drawing conclusions.

CD sees no reason to add to what he says on isolation, in new edition of Origin.

Lists specimens he has available for CC’s intended study of metamorphoses of Lepas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 106: B75–6
Summary:

Argues that [general variability] of species, not single variations or sports, is basis for modification and adaptation to new conditions.

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 143–143/2
Summary:

DF’s opinion of Gustav Jenzsch’s book [Mikroskopische Flora und Fauna (1868)]. Encloses extract of a letter from Ferdinand Zirkel also mentioning Jenzsch’s work.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
31 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.361)
Summary:

Returns book with thanks. "Joyfully accepts" idea of the warming of Southern Hemisphere during glacial period in the Northern. Lyell is unwilling.

Mentions H. N. Moseley’s study of descent of glaciers [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].

CD greatly troubled by problem of age of the earth and calculations of Sir William Thomson. Asks about changes in the form of the globe.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Phipps Haussoullier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 362
Summary:

Requests authorisation to translate Journal of researches into French.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 8–9
Summary:

Does not fact that characters important in systematics are often of no use, corroborate CD’s view that such characters, if not detrimental, may persist ad infinitum?

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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1869–75]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 54)
Summary:

Sends a letter from Capt Forrest, recommending a Mr Knight.

Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 January 1869
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B73-74
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 164
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 232-233]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 January [1869]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 165-166
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 233]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 January 1869
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B75-76
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 167
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 234]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Fairfax; Mary Greig; Mary Somerville
Date:
21 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (Dep. c. 370, folder MSD-1: on loan from Somerville College, Oxford)
Summary:

Thanks for copy of MS’s book [On molecular and microscopic science, (1869)]. Part on orchids is an excellent summary.

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