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DCP-LETT-3194

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 99: 3–4
Summary:

Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".

The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3194A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
23 June [1861]
Source of text:
Walter R. Benjamin Autographs (dealer) (1992)
Summary:

Noting that he is not an M.D., he would be much gratified should the University of Breslau think fit to honour him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13266

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[23 June 1861]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0523; Reel 1053
Summary:

AH's college exams. Prefers that AH come home, rather than JH coming to Clapham and using Charles Pritchard's astronomy instruments. Describes 'revolving reflector' that JH designed for studying star spectra. Margaret and Duncan Stewart are coming to Clapham tomorrow for races. Many visitors at Collingwood.

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John Herschel Project
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