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DCP-LETT-4116

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 75
Summary:

Expresses hope that CD is ready to pronounce sentence on his book;

he relates his financial position and mentions that he hopes to get a position at the British Museum.

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DCP-LETT-4115

From:
Horace Benge Dobell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 162: 189
Summary:

Sends CD a form he has devised of a proper genealogical table of three or four generations of the families of medical cases, so that hereditary transmission may be more accurately and fully recorded.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4113

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 14
Summary:

Has been in France, conveys good wishes from Quatrefages.

Describes the fossil of an unusual mammal head from Brazil.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4112

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 134
Summary:

AG’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4111

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2)
Summary:

Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.

W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.

Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.

JDH evaluates his sons.

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