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DCP-LETT-2959

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
23 [Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 21 (EH 88206005)
Summary:

Compliments DO on his wealth of information.

Henrietta’s relapse.

Thanks for extract on Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2963

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
26 [Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 58
Summary:

Concern over Henrietta’s illness.

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DCP-LETT-2964

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
26 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A81–2
Summary:

CD does not mind C. R. Bree’s dull, unvarying abuse and misrepresentation, but when he doubts CD’s deliberate word, "that is the act of a man who has not the soul of a gentleman in him".

JSH’s letter in Athenæum ["Flints in the drift", 20 Oct. 1860, p. 516] is interesting.

H. Freke’s paper [On the origin of species by means of organic affinity (1861)] is beyond CD’s scope.

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DCP-LETT-2966

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Thomas Ansted
Date:
27 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 19
Summary:

Comments on interpretation of natural selection in DTA’s Geological gossip [1860].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2966A

From:
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
27 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 5
Summary:

Is enclosing Alfred Swaine Taylor’s book On poisons (1848). Reports on his own experiment with the starch test in dissolving iodine in different measures of water.

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DCP-LETT-2966B

From:
Benjamin Silliman, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1860
Source of text:
Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with Silliman 1851)
Summary:

On the suggestion of Jeffries Wyman, he writes about the rats that he captured in Mammoth Cave in 1850. They were indeed blind. Reginald Mantell studied them and learned that with long exposure to graduated light, they became somewhat sensitised. Sends copy of an abstract which he wrote as a letter to A. H. Guyot ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. Journal of Sci. and Arts 2d ser. 11 (1851)]. [See 3007.]

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DCP-LETT-2967

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
28 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 70 (EH)
Summary:

Testimonial for Daniel Oliver’s candidacy as Professor of Botany [DO was Professor of Botany, University College London, 1861–88].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2970

From:
John Medows Rodwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 47: 167–8
Summary:

Observations on his white blue-eyed cat. There is no sign of deafness.

Apropos of ch. 5 of Origin, tells of blind rats found when a Roman bridge was excavated.

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DCP-LETT-2971

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 23 Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 58.2: 55
Summary:

Quotes note by Julius Milde on Drosera rotundifolia from Botanische Zeitung (1852): 540.

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HENSLOW-569

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 202
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-570

From:
R. M. Rolfe
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
17 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 101
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-571

From:
John Evans
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 154 & 154(ii)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-572

From:
H. Elphinstone
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 162
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-573

From:
John Evans
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
31 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 155
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-574

From:
R. M. Rolfe
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
31 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 102
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-599

From:
Lord Ducie
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
23 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 131
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-659

From:
H. J. H. Bond
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 October 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 32
Summary:

Discusses JSH’s attendance at Cambridge University medical examinations, for students who need to be examined in botany as well. Need for attendance uncertain.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2940

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
5 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Answers HGB’s criticism of Origin.

Explains HGB’s case of differences in rats by adaptation.

CD’s view explains homological and embryological resemblances of each type.

Does not believe all development is at same rate. Cites Australian forms.

Does not see force of objection that origin of life must be explained.

Asks if C. L. Brehm’s subspecies of birds are really characteristic of regions of Germany.

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