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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 359
Summary:

Will be glad to see Miss Wedgwood’s MS on Wesley.

The clichés of Fritz Müller’s work [Für Darwin] have arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 204
Summary:

Questions CD’s view in Variation that Torfschwein formerly ranged from Europe to China.

Cites numerous German publications relating to CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 84
Summary:

He has been occupied with Royal Geographical Society anniversary meeting, but did go to Janson and selected various specimens for CD, some of which have remarkable stridulating organs.

The habits of Lethrus are found in Kirby and Spence’s Introduction [to entomology, 7th ed. (1856)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 329
Summary:

Is reading CD’s instances of inherited peculiarities of eye [Variation 2: 8–10]. Gives cases of colour-blindness of males in his family.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May [1868]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 83: 191-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 102: 210-13
Summary:

Hooker enquires what Darwin makes of ARW's paper on bird's nests and how he struck by ARW's great ability.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project