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DCP-LETT-6796

From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 229
Summary:

Reports having seen a very human-looking monkey on exhibit. Gives a phrenological analysis of its skull.

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DCP-LETT-6798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke
Date:
23 June [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 203–4)
Summary:

He told Giovanni Canestrini that stereotypes [for Variation] would cost £10.

Reminds RC of his suggestion that a copy [of Origin, 5th ed.] be sent to Scientific Opinion for review.

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DCP-LETT-6799

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 265
Summary:

Thanks for presentation copy of Origin [5th ed.].

Clarifies his point on north and south glacial periods. Supports CD’s view that temperate plants will move up mountains during the alternation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6797

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B81–2
Summary:

Asks whether sexual selection could produce the changing plumules or "battledore" scales on the wings of certain butterflies.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June [1869]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B81-82
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 185
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 244-245]
Summary:

No summary available.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6795

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
23 June 1869
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6512)
Summary:

[A quotation in CD’s hand, signed and dated, from the introduction to Orchids.] "I have never once expressed a wish for aid or for information, which has not been granted, as far as possible, in the most liberal spirit."

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