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DCP-LETT-3397

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
20 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 22)
Summary:

Discusses Stellaria and other plants said to be dimorphic.

Asks for plants he wants for experiments.

Preparing a little book on Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3396

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 291
Summary:

The Witness attacks THH’s lecture.

Assures CD he spoke more favourably of his doctrines than the reports show.

Agrees with CD’s arguments on sterility of hybrids and predicts physiological experiments will produce physiological species sterile inter se. Has come even closer to CD’s view especially since Primula paper. Will soon be more Darwinian than CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3398

From:
Conrad Martens
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 52
Summary:

He will send CD one of his sketches to add to the two CD has kept since Beagle days.

Asks for FitzRoy’s address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1858

From:
Nevil Story-Maskelyne
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jan 20
Source of text:
DF 15/2, Natural History Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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WCP378

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
[22 Dec. 1861 & 20 Jan. 1862]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/53
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 199-201]
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 87-88]
Summary:

Plans to return to England; GS's preoccupation with politics; ARW's paper on New Guinea Native Trade, Blondin, Mr Fechter; Great Expectations; wet season in Sumatra; jungle animals; monkey behaviour; Malay language and customs; [Mony's] book on Java; Dutch and British colonial government; GS's siblings; Marriage, desirable qualities in a wife.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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