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DCP-LETT-6332A

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1868
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Charles Valentine Riley papers, Scrapbook no. 9, p. 61); DAR 47: 180; DAR 193: 54; Field Museum (pasted into C. V. Riley’s personal copy of his own 1st Annual Report of the Missouri State Entomologist)
Summary:

On the delay in receiving CD’s new book [Variation] and his delight in a borrowed copy.

Encloses a Prospectus on his new periodical "American Entomologist" devoted to economic entomology.

Comments on the talents of his young partner, C. V. Riley.

Requests photographs for Riley of CD and Westwood.

Dr J. L. Le Conte has not yet received the request that he furnish CD with information about the stridulatory organs of Coleoptera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6333

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 229–32
Summary:

The newspapers’ pother about his mild theology.

Tyndall’s reference to JDH and CD as the two "modestest" men in science.

Huxley offended the clergy twice without cause or warrant.

William Hooker ill.

Astronomers do not like JDH’s reference to them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6334

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B65–6
Summary:

On triumph of "Darwinianism".

Discussion of their differences on subject of protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6335

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 18
Summary:

JBI has been charmed with Variation. Does not think there is really any theological difficulty in the "predestination of variation".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6336

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 215
Summary:

EB is moving to Wiltshire for a week.

Tells CD of animals acquired, or about to be acquired, by the Zoological Garden.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6337

From:
Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 221
Summary:

Explains "Pantogen".

Summarises his papers.

Asks for help in finding a publisher.

Criticises d’Archiac’s review of Origin [in Paléontologie stratigraphique 2 (1864)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6338

From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 31 Aug 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 12
Summary:

Sven Nilsson may visit John Lubbock.

Norwich [BAAS] meeting was most successful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6374

From:
Dyson Lacy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 13 Aug 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 49
Summary:

Answers to CD’s queries on expression in natives of Queensland, Australia.

[Forwarded by Edward Wilson to CD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
7 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 42; Argyll Papers, Inveraray Castle (NRAS 1209/985)
Summary:

Thinks GHL’s articles are quite excellent; hopes they will be republished.

Discusses adaptation. Doubts whether similar conditions without selection can produce similar organs independent of blood relationship: "resemblances due to descent and adaptation can commonly be distinguished".

Discusses luminous insects, electrical organs of fish, thorns and spines.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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