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DCP-LETT-5353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 3–4
Summary:

Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5354

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 343
Summary:

CD should not be discouraged by the bulk of Variation. CD’s suggestion to print technical details in small type is good.

Murray has sent MS to a "man of letters and good information" as an experiment to test its effect. Has no intention of throwing up publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5355

From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 82: A113–14
Summary:

Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.

Has now an extensive collection of insects.

Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.

Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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