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DCP-LETT-5823

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 120
Summary:

Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].

European converts to CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-68-01-31

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hyndman
Date:
31 January 1868
Source of text:
No. 4125, unit 733, VPRS 3181/P Town Clerk's file series 1, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10822

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Date:
31 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (13 September 1984)
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.

George will try for a fellowship at Trinity.

CD believes real education begins after school days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5820

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 43
Summary:

Royal Society Council would feel bound to vote for Candolle, but privately would twenty times rather see Asa Gray elected.

Asks for title of Wollaston’s Cape Verde book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].

Supposes JDH has received his letter in answer to Gray.

Has been writing two long papers for Linnean Society [reprinted in Forms of flowers].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5824

From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 168: 68
Summary:

Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge

and CD’s world-wide reputation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5821

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 172
Summary:

Thanks CD for sending him Variation and for honouring his name by its frequent mention in the work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8960

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[31 January 1868]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 12 (Jan. 31, 1868), 57
Summary:

Discusses the action of hyposulphite of ammonia on muriate of silver. Gives directions for preparing hyposulfite of silver.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5822

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 290
Summary:

Congratulations on George Darwin’s performance at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2670

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
31 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.325)
Summary:

Asks GHKT about eyes of screaming elephants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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