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DCP-LETT-5836

From:
Albrecht Bernstorff, Graf von Bernstorff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 177
Summary:

His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5837

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 186
Summary:

Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.

Thanks CD for Variation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1269

From:
Hemmings, Henry
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
3 February 1868
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2242
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-5835

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 44–9
Summary:

Comments on Wollaston’s troubles

and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].

Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.

Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.

Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.

Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5750

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 210
Summary:

Recommends J. Scott’s paper on crossing varieties of Verbascum.

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