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DCP-LETT-6666

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 118–20
Summary:

Envies JDH’s Russian trip.

Thanks for information on Aucuba. Urges him to experiment – case "has highest physiological importance, not to mention Pangenesis".

Has heard that Huxley has been attacking views of Sir W. Thomson.

Has received 12 plants of Drosophyllum lusitanicum from Oporto.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6665

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 318
Summary:

Last letter was written to be passed on for Lushington’s edification. "(Standing on the points of my toes and my tail very stiff)." Is tiring of controversy as a waste of time. Begins to understand CD’s sufferings over Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6667

From:
Louis Rérolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 129
Summary:

LR undertakes translation of Orchids [1870]. Awaits CD’s new footnotes and intends to look at every flower CD mentions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4879

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
17 March 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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