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DCP-LETT-4986

From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 202
Summary:

Last fascicles of FR’s book Der Mensch [1866] being sent.

Finds roots of human race in Negroes of Africa, Bushmen of South Africa and New Guinea, and short-headed peoples of south Asia.

Has translated natural selection as natürliche Auslese.

Ludwig Rütimeyer active in developing the descent of mammals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6472

From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.240
Summary:

Sending a certificate proposing Professor William Selwyn; would JH add qualifications, sign it and send it on to G. B. Airy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4987

From:
Frederic Ward Putnam
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 174: 81
Summary:

Sends a paper on Bombus ["On the habits of some species of humble-bees", Commun. Essex Inst. 4 (1866): 98–104].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10516

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.393
Summary:

Thinks that E. W. L. Tempel's comet may be connected with that of Biela. Comments on this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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