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DCP-LETT-6678

From:
Karl Johann (Karl) von Seidlitz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 132
Summary:

Mentions his publication [Die Bildungsgesetze der Vogeleier (1869)].

Comments on importance of heredity for evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Comments on Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4880

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-03-23

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Augustus Tulk
Date:
23 March 1869
Source of text:
Unit 5, VPRS 927, Papers re Exhibitions, Letters re exhibits in Fine Arts Exhibition 1869, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

SOMERVILLE339

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
23 Mar 1869
Source of text:
HS 16.379, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2688

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.379
Summary:

Has made the changes JH suggested. Autobiography will be published posthumously. Met [Henry W.] Longfellow. Wishes the Herschels would visit because it might improve JH's health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6680

From:
Harrison William Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: C10, DAR 84.1: 118
Summary:

Proportion of sexes in pigeons, pigs, and pheasants.

Sexual preferences of females.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2222

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 March 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 113-128
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6681

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 112–15
Summary:

Comments on Fritz Müller’s book [Facts and arguments for Darwin].

Responds to CD’s corrections of his work [Malay Archipelago].

Plumage of birds of paradise.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4089

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 March 1869
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 84.1: 112-115
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel7900

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.104
Summary:

Consulted A. C. L. G. Günther, museum ichthyologist. Answers JH's question about poisonous herring Clupea thryssa. [A. K.] Johnston's Physical Atlas attributes Ruminants article to GW, but GW wrote only Rodentia article.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6682

From:
Martin Wilckens
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 96: 67v
Summary:

Sends two of his publications ["Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Fortschritte der Thierzucht", Jahrb. Landwirtsch. (1869) and "Die Aufgaben der landwirtschaftlicher Biotechnik", Landwirtsch. Wochenbl. (1869)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6683

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Martin Wilckens
Date:
[after 25 Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 67r
Summary:

Thanks MW for two publications [see 6682].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12341

From:
Mathilde Oersted
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.198
Summary:

It was a great pleasure to receive JH's letter. Sees that he still remembers the day at Portsmouth. Hopes to collect and publish her father's letters and now returns those written to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP3005

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
26 March 1869?
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 51-52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1919

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 March [1869]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 178-180
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 240-241]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel10684

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[27 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.254
Summary:

Comments on the radiant heat of heavenly bodies and the motion of Sirius.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6684

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Hopes ARW has not "murdered too completely your own and my child" [natural selection] in his Quarterly Review article ["Sir Charles Lyell on geological climates and the Origin", 126 (1869): 359–94] on Lyell’s Principles [10th ed.].

CD is attributing more significance to useless variability in new [5th] edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-03-28

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Barlee
Date:
28 March 1869
Source of text:
Colonial Secretary's Office - letters received, acc. 36, vol. 639, ff. 20-4, State Records Office of Western Australia, Perth
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-69-03-28c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
28 March 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 375
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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