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DCP-LETT-6142

From:
Gerolamo Boccardo
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 233
Summary:

Thanks CD for gift of Variation.

GB sent copies of his Fisica del globo [1868] to Lyell and the presidents of British scientific societies but has received no acknowledgment; asks CD to check that they received the work. Could CD arrange for a notice of the book to appear in England?

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DCP-LETT-6143

From:
Theodor Engelmann; Verlagsbuchhandlung Wilhelm Engelmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 163: 20
Summary:

In response to CD’s letter of 21 April, TE has forwarded the 67 clichés of the woodcuts from Fritz Müller’s work [Für Darwin (1864)]; acknowledges CD’s cheque for £3 6s. in payment.

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DCP-LETT-6144

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 120–4
Summary:

Various topics related to sexual selection: sexual differences, sexual preferences, coloration.

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DCP-LETT-6145

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr – 4 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 77
Summary:

Observations on root-climbers. Variegated and arborescent varieties of Hedera.

[CD’s notes are for his reply, 6165.]

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DCP-LETT-6147

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 161
Summary:

Discusses Hildebrand

and criticises Delpino.

Asks to borrow C. K. Sprengel’s Entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur [1793].

Botanists have no explanation of the case of Viola odorata and other showy flowers being sterile while inconspicuous ones bear seed.

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DCP-LETT-6152

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 88–9
Summary:

Starlings find new mates readily. Nesting in threes common.

Recognition of song by birds.

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DCP-LETT-7413

From:
Charles Langstaff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22? Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 1
Summary:

Describes the appearance of the nose in crying.

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