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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B22–3
Summary:

Sends papers with comments. Convinced that the Aru pig is a species peculiar to New Guinea fauna, not a domestic animal that ran wild.

Admires CD’s paper ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31].

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From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 231–2
Summary:

J. D. Hooker will not be able to visit CD because of ill health.

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From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1865–6]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 364
Summary:

Was glad to see CD at museum.

Asks CD to sign and return enclosed item.

CD did not cover oysters in his book; FB can point out curious facts about them.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224
Summary:

Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.

Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.

The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".

Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.

THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.

Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].

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