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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 369
Summary:

Confirms a request by CD that Murray’s supply electrotypes of Orchids at most reasonable possible price.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Spiridion Brusina
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 354
Summary:

SB is founding a natural history society to study the flora and fauna of the southern Slavic countries.

Plans to print portraits of the four most distinguished naturalists and asks for a photograph of CD.

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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 80
Summary:

Sends paper on the "Origin of genera".

J. Decaisne, in last week’s Gardeners’ Chronicle, on the apple, cannot mean there are no intermediates between Malus and Pyrus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maximilian (Max) Schmidt
Date:
[29 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 65
Summary:

Asks MS whether he will examine adult mandrills and describe the sexual differences in colouring.

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From:
Lawrence Ruck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 29 Apr 1869?]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 134–5
Summary:

On the horns of castrated lambs.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 Apr 1869
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 181–3)
Summary:

ARW’s review of 10th ed. of Lyell’s Principles [see 6684] is admirable.

But he differs "grievously" with ARW on man. CD sees no necessity for an additional and proximate cause.

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