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DCP-LETT-3564

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 69
Summary:

Miocene glacial period a remarkable discovery; if it is true, enlargement of Tertiary period necessary.

Received German monograph on Chilean Carabi that does not answer where isolated species came from.

HWB finds genital modifications of Chrysomela strong support for the theory.

Thanks for copy of Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3561

From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 321
Summary:

Thanks for revisions in 2d ed. of Origin. Suggests correction regarding species numbers in the Tertiary.

Comments on pages of Orchids and problems of German translation.

Believes CD’s theory not yet proven, but that it will finally lead to truth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3563

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 239
Summary:

Comments on presentation copy of Orchids: bee Ophrys self-fertilisation; origin of nectar; odour of orchids. Book gives strong cases for special creationists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4182

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/54
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-62-05-19

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3562

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 242
Summary:

Thanks for Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4181

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/53
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3364

From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 19 May 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 40
Summary:

Sends photograph. Asks CD for his.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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