From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 123
Summary:
On the genealogy of the horse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
17 July 1869
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes’ Verlag Gotha
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
17 July [1869]
Source of text:
E. C. Hodgkin (private collection)
Summary:
Ernst Haeckel is working on calcareous sponges. Does AH have any British specimens that he can spare? [See 6842.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 22–4
Summary:
On reading F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].
Pangenesis.
Agrees with CD on fascination [of snakes].
Huxley is at Comte again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
17 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 545; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990)
Summary:
Discusses need for cross-fertilisation in Geranium.
Hooker begins to doubt whether Drosophyllum so closely allied to Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project