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DCP-LETT-3883F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 27 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 797
Summary:

Inquires whether penguin ducks can run faster than other kinds.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3891

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 or 28] Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 93–5
Summary:

Hostile to Spencer’s application of natural selection to society.

JDH on J. E. Gray’s views on collecting.

JDH collecting Wedgwood ware.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9216

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[27 December 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207107 (C: RS:HS 23.401)
Summary:

Sends translation of Book III of Homer's Iliad and a memorial for Thomas Maclear.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3877

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
27 [Dec 1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD interested in hybrid sterility and encloses his preliminary MS. Outlines experiments to test for existence of sterility in breeds of poultry and pigeons.

Experiments on dimorphism have led him to change in part his opinion as given in Origin, and he is now asking pigeon and poultry fanciers for any examples of special selective sterility [i.e., a particular pair are sterile when crossed, but each individual is fertile with others] and hopes to investigate its inheritance.

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