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DCP-LETT-4829

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Rolle
Date:
6 May [1865]
Source of text:
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle)
Summary:

Thanks FR for copy [of first number] of Der Mensch [1866].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1510

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[6 May 1865]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.14 (C: RS:HS 24.108)
Summary:

Further comments on the theory of glacier formation, urging causes beyond merely astronomical ones.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4375

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[6 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.109
Summary:

Signing himself 'A.B.C.D.,' asks whether a priest is guilty of perjury for having refused to testify regarding a murder on the grounds that this would violate the seal of the confessional.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4828

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Philip Mansel Weale
Date:
6 May [1865]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.308)
Summary:

Sends advice on naturalist matters.

W. H. Harvey’s work [with Wilhelm Sonder, Flora capensis (1859–65)],

and Robert Brown’s publication ["On the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchideae and Asclepiadeae", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 16 (1833): 685–745].

Writes of having seen in S. America a Hymenopteran with tarsi covered with pollen-masses of Asclepias.

Interested in JPMW’s researches in South American caverns.

Mentions poor health.

Thanks for tracings.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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