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DCP-LETT-3946

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 176: 161
Summary:

Thanks CD for Origin.

TR has often thought naturalists do not pay enough attention to the effect of site, soil, and climate on animals and plants and "hence has arisen the enormous number of so-called species".

His observations on people of different counties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3947

From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 176: 201
Summary:

Pleased that his book, Ch. Darwin’s Lehre [1863], has CD’s approval.

FR formerly a geologist, now a dealer in natural history objects.

Most active supporter of CD’s theory is Gustav Jäger in Vienna.

FR regards fossil Hipparion as a link between horse and pachyderms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3948

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26–7 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 61
Summary:

Has done extensive plant hybridisation: strawberry, raspberry, Rhododendron.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3949

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 26 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 56
Summary:

Does not believe in regeneration of monstrous toe.

Pigeon and poultry experiments.

Peculiar pigeon at Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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