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DCP-LETT-5041

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 329
Summary:

Sends CD comb of the Chinese honey-bee, as requested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
31 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (4)
Summary:

Asks [Secretary] to list the proper titles of foreign societies of which he is an honorary member; he has mislaid diplomas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5043

From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 281
Summary:

Calls for more study of behaviour and less of classification to determine whether descent theory can bear the weight not [only] of reasoning but of fact. Hopes CD’s intended book [Variation] will help.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5077

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 68
Summary:

Asks to visit Down on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5078

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[21 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 67
Summary:

Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5427

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Gold Appleton
Date:
2 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library Rare Books and Print Departments–Courtesy of the Trustees
Summary:

The specimen is not a fish but the larva of some batrachian or frog-like animal. Has sent it to British Museum, which says it resembles the axolotl of Mexico.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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