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Herschel6462

From:
Arthur Cayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.230
Summary:

Has asked J. Henderson to send him the revised proof of JH's paper 'Additional Identification of Double Stars.' It will appear in the Monthly Notes and later in the Memoirs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6044

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[24 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 5
Summary:

CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6045

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B61–2, B158–9
Summary:

Returns George Darwin’s criticisms of his notes on sterility and sends further notes in reply. Since there are degrees of sterility between varieties, "is it not probable that natural selection can accumulate these variations?" Varieties that are adapted to new conditions could then survive and form new species without being isolated.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1894

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 March [1868]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B61-62
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B158-159
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 121-122
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 205-206]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6046

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 65–8
Summary:

Experiments to test Wallace’s theory that brightly coloured caterpillars are rejected by birds. [See Descent 1: 417.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11275

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.168
Summary:

Sending his impression, formed during a recent visit to Dublin, of the Great Telescope destined for Melbourne. Considers it a triumph of mechanical invention.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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