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DCP-LETT-5637

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B43–4
Summary:

Informs CD of his reply to Argyll and the North British Review criticisms [in "Creation by law", Q. J. Sci. 4 (1867): 471–88]. Cites "the predicted Madagascar moth" and Angraecum sesquipedale.

Birth of Herbert Spencer Wallace.

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WCP1882

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 October [1867]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B43-44
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 95
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 188]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5641

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 61
Summary:

Asks CD’s help in translating names and descriptions of fowls [in Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5643

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 62
Summary:

Some sheets of Variation have gone astray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5626

From:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 181: 11
Summary:

Forwards answers from Charles Walter to some of CD’s queries about expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5620A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Oct 1867]
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 132
Summary:

Has CD ever considered that the colour of seeds of Amarantaceae would attract the attention of birds?

Describes case of a climbing Chamissoa of the local flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5646

From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 171: 268
Summary:

Has received more Variation sheets; some are missing. In a few days the first six chapters of the French translation will be printed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5650

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 63
Summary:

Anxious to read the second volume [of Variation].

Appreciates "the way in which you [CD] teach us all how to look on, and how to study, nature".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5651

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 180–1
Summary:

Must cut short visit to Down because of domestic problems.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5652

From:
William Houghton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 166: 271
Summary:

Studying freshwater Planariae. Did CD find they had nervous systems?

News of T. C. Eyton and [William?] Owen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5655

From:
Joseph Plimsoll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 174: 51
Summary:

Seeks to save CD’s soul.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5656

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B46–7
Summary:

Response to CD’s comments on "Creation by law" [see 5637].

The limits of variation discussed.

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WCP1884

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 October [1867]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B46-47
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 101-102
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 192-193]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5657

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 171: 291
Summary:

Thanks for German version of Origin [1867].

Dipterous insects are adapted to eating pollen rather than only to sucking nectar. He describes such adaptations in two dipteran species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6433

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 59
Summary:

Wants information on Fuegian harpoons. Must prepare second edition of Prehistoric times.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5658

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 64
Summary:

Asks CD for exact title of Variation for German advertisement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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