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DCP-LETT-6690

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 241
Summary:

Sends CD a paper ["Ant-agency in plant structure", published in Spruce Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, ed. A. R. Wallace (1908)] on plant structures he believes are the work of insects; asks him to forward it to the Linnean Society [read 15 Apr 1869].

Writes of his support for the Origin, before which he had been much concerned by the delimitation of so-called species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6474

From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.242
Summary:

Is pleased with the interest JH is taking in his volume. Understands the difficulty of comprehending it at once. Further comments on his own dynamical theory of dispersion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7903

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[1 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.107 (C: 24.255)
Summary:

Thanks for answers and for notice on Apteryx [Maerurus ?], which JH remembers watching Richard Owen inspect. Interested in W. B. Carpenter's and C. W. Thomson's ['Bathybius?]' as origin of chalk-flint. Discusses inorganic chemical allotropes. Organic allotropes may exist, serving as 'agents of vital action' and subject to a higher power.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
1 Apr 1869
Source of text:
Spruce 1908 , 2: 385
Summary:

RS’s facts are remarkable. A year or two ago CD would not have believed ants could produce an inherited effect, but he has "lately come to believe rather more in inherited mutilations". However, CD is not satisfied that the sacs are inherited and urges RS to produce any other evidence he might have.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000941

From:
Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger
To:
Royal Society
Date:
3 April 1869
Source of text:
MM/14/217, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-5482

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
3 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 17)
Summary:

Glad BDW has proved his case on dimorphism of Cynips.

Interested in galls

and BDW’s Cicada articles [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia (1864)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4864

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel12505

From:
Christian August Friedrich Peters
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.371
Summary:

Comments on exchange of astronomical works with JH. CP expects to improve the observatory library now that the Prussians have taken over Altona. Is making arrangements to carry out some pendulum experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6692F

From:
George M’Ilvaine Ramsey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 271.6a: 3
Summary:

Describes the work he is writing, Cosmology (Ramsay 1870).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6098A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
6 Apr [1869-71]
Source of text:
L’Autographe (dealers) (Catalogue 21)
Summary:

"My experiment was intended solely to show that colour reappeared, and I choose kinds which breed [true] to colour, as is certainly the case with [sports] and those which I tried . . .

I have recorded an undoubted case of wild rock Pigeons caught in Scotland having bred in confinement …"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-M69-04-07

From:
Ludwig von Golther
To:
Eduard von Schmidlin
Date:
7 April 1869
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
7 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/10)
Summary:

Drosophyllum plants recovering [from trip]. Describes experiments on them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2224

From:
William George Clark
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 April [1869?]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 133-134
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-04-09

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Standish
Date:
9 April 1869
Source of text:
Bundle 4, unit 7, VPRS 1199 Chief Commissioner's inward correspondence, VA 724 Victoria Police, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6694

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 172: 47
Summary:

Regrets Frank [Darwin] did not pass the Trinity scholarship examination, but he hears Frank did well on the viva voce part.

Pleased CD is willing to help the University’s Museum of Zoology; he encloses the printed appeal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10184

From:
Amédée Victor Guillemin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.71
Summary:

Is preparing a new edition of his book Le ciel, which J. N. Lockyer is translating into English. Would like to reproduce new information on shooting stars and meteors and would like JH's assistance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-1173

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
10 April [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 291
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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WCP6648

From:
Theodosius Purland
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 April 1869
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1905). In: My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions . Vol. 2. London: Chapman & Hall. [two plates, facing p. 77]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-04-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
12 April 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 376-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-69-04-12a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
12 April 1869
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 208, no. 574, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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