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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[spring 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 64
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 54
Summary:
On hybridism between the fox and dog; asks whether CD knows of a reliable case of offspring from this cross.
Does CD want details on a white cat with blue eyes, but not deaf?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 152–3
Summary:
Sexual differences in antelopes (Indian and African).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
1 March 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70. f. 366
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Royal Society
Date:
1 March 1869
Source of text:
MM/14/216, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
J[ohn] Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.342
Summary:
Sending some tables to show the relation between the mean distances of the primary and secondary planets.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 March 1869
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library: Gen113/Lyell1/3961-3965
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Georg Recht
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 75
Summary:
Thanks for money, which will enable him to complete publication. Explains principles of his physiological theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 18a–f
Summary:
Sends a single specimen of Drosophyllum lusitanicum with description from F. de Avellar Brotero’s Flora Lusitanica [1804].
Discusses Portuguese ferns,
inherited mutilation,
and the earth’s geological history.
Evolution of behaviour and beauty by natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Date:
3 Mar 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.362)
Summary:
Thanks TRRS for copy of his lecture [Darwinism (1869)]. Praises his "admirable example of liberality".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
4 March [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: 50
Summary:
Further observations on horns of fallow deer. Sends fawn’s head.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.27
Summary:
Would be pleased if JH would come to the consecration of the new chapel in May.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 March [1869]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 170-171
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 235]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.364)
Summary:
Discusses wear and tear due to glaciation and significance of this evidence for dating the glacial period. Mentions views of James Croll and Archibald Geikie on the issue.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 248
Summary:
Explains how he, as "an orthodox clergyman" reading CD’s works, was totally convinced by his arguments. Expresses pleasure "that Science might make gigantic strides without offering such collateral opinions as, if true, would certainly dispense with clergymen altogether".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Chester Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 178: 45
Summary:
Is forwarding potted specimens of Drosophyllum.
Will make inquiries about sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
Reception of ARW’s book, Malay Archipelago.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
6 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.366)
Summary:
Thanks TCE for fawn’s head.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
6 March 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70. f. 367
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project