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DCP-LETT-4929F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
[2–5 Nov 1865]
Source of text:
Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 (1867): 328 n.
Summary:

Reports the results of an experiment to compare the weight of seeds produced in plants of [Medicago sativa] by self-pollination and by insect pollination.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4929

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Farrar
Date:
2 Nov [1865]
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 80)
Summary:

Has enjoyed FWF’s volume [Chapters on language]. Had found Max Müller’s theory obscure and weak.

Believes FWF would come to agree with him on species if he studied general questions in natural history. To argue for immutability of species on the basis of geology resembles a wise savage in a nation with no books saying his language has never changed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4936

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eliza Meteyard
Date:
16 Nov [1865]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/7
Summary:

Asks her to send some specimens of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s handwriting for the Autographic Mirror.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4940F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
21 Nov 1865
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £257 12s. 2d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4939F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
22 Nov 1865
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. 480 (Slg. Runge), 4: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 1–2)
Summary:

Comments on the facsimile of his handwriting made by HK, and points out two errors in the letter press.

Encloses three letters written by Erasmus Darwin, and asks HK to return them to Eliza Meteyard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4943

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
30 Nov 1865
Source of text:
R. Wallace ed. 1899, p. lvi.
Summary:

Gratified that JS defends views of Origin.

Thinks beauty of flowers is solely to attract insects.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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