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DCP-LETT-6211

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 127–8
Summary:

Refers to letter from John Wright offering to help CD on his queries about deerhounds and sexual preferences.

More details about a terrier bitch previously referred to [letter missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0607

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel4922

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.310
Summary:

Is sending William Pole's protest against the system of equal temperament in music [abstract of protest given].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4923

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.311 (C: RGO 6.16.32)
Summary:

Stating that the Board of Visitors could not afford to lose the services of JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6211F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henty
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
Clifford D. Stromberg (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks WH for sending a table about sheep. Wishes to know if the sheep belonged to one or several breeds. Mr Harward, a breeder of shorthorns, has tried M. Thury’s plan, and it failed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel14097

From:
Philip Kelland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0315; Reel 1087
Summary:

Just received JH's paper. Will need two weeks to review it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1995

From:
Sir William Pole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.28
Summary:

Thanks JH for his note. Asks that JH's paper on scales [1868 'On Musical Scales'] be made available to him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Did not know of complex change of plumage. From WBT’s letter, CD thinks six weeks to two months old is the best period. Sends details of breeds and other particulars.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3002

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 44
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE365

From:
William Huggins
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
MSH 6 / 348, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

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Brigitte Stenhouse
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