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DCP-LETT-5194

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
20 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 5)
Summary:

On various subjects: Dana’s misquotations,

H. J. Clark’s book Mind in nature [1865],

BDW’s Cynips experiments, galls,

Balbiani’s paper on aphids ["Sur la reproduction et l’embryogénie des pucerons", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 62 (1866): 1231–4, 1285–9, 1390–4].

Claus and other Germans testing CD’s views of variability in common lower animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5195

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 184
Summary:

Is looking for CD’s book [Variation]; does not know whether it is yet published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel2587

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[20 August 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.164
Summary:

Says the plan for the exhibition is ingenious. Discusses the 11 year cycle of sunspots and says the sun was spotless the previous day.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel860

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[20 August 1866]
Source of text:
JHS 4.12
Summary:

News of the family servants, correspondence both JH and MH need to deal with, and prospects for son John.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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