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DCP-LETT-3387

From:
John Hutton Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 31
Summary:

Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]; will examine some [Edinburgh] Botanic Garden samples in its light.

Huxley visiting Edinburgh and spoke on man’s zoological relations with monkeys [see Man’s place in nature (1863)]. JHB disagrees with his views.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6589

From:
George F. Chambers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.330
Summary:

Will be pleased to furnish details of instruments used in a future edition. What does JH think of his attempts to copy his originals?

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John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
14 [Jan 1862]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 167)
Summary:

On success of THH’s Edinburgh lectures.

Agrees that THH is right that the hybrid question is a "hiatus" [in the argument for natural selection] but he overrates it. Crossed varieties frequently produce sterile offspring. On this question asks THH to read his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. CD suspects sterility will come to be viewed as a selected character.

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