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DCP-LETT-6674

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
20 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 254
Summary:

Asks about coat colour of elk,

the mane of American bison,

and about sexual preferences of female deer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP7191

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
20 March [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Mss.B.D25.367
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6673

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christoph Julius (Julius) Dub
Date:
20 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 96: 62, 64
Summary:

CD will supply the sheets of the new edition of the Origin [5th ed. (1869)] if JD goes ahead with his work [Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s über die Entstehung der Arten der Organismen (1870)]. Has no objection to JD’s quoting him, but wonders whether the German publisher of Origin might not feel injured.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-03-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Guilfoyle
Date:
20 March 1869
Source of text:
RB MSS 439c, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6675

From:
Samuel Owen Glenie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 56
Summary:

His observations of the chickens hatched from eggs of an isolated pair of pure-bred black-boned fowl. Nine were black-boned, two were like ordinary fowl.

Quotes a Mr Holdsworth on unusual expressions of Singhalese and Tamils in pointing and beckoning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6672

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
20 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.367)
Summary:

Discusses views of Wallace, H. N. Moseley, and Croll on the mechanics of glacier movement.

Comments on Wallace’s new book [The Malay Archipelago (1869)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1474

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
20 March 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.277, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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