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DCP-LETT-6898

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 55
Summary:

Asks CD’s opinion of a paper he has written on papilionaceous flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Sept 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 153–4
Summary:

Asks JDH to consult colleagues learned in physiology for answer to query: when a large piece of bark is removed from a tree, does the bark ever regrow in isolated points [separate] from the growing margin of the surrounding bark? Query bears on Pangenesis and on power of repair in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6899

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 213
Summary:

Leaflet variation at the tip of Lathyrus stems.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6897

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 371
Summary:

JM is about to start a new monthly literary review [the Academy]. Would like to publish in first number a short notice of the new work upon which CD is engaged [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP659

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Rudolf Felder
Date:
18 September 1869
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418398
Summary:

Regrets he has no spare copies of a paper Felder has asked for, but will send him his "Notes on Eastern butterflies".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6900

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[after 18 Sept 1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 39–40)
Summary:

Wishes JM’s new periodical [the Academy] could have been a weekly so it might kill the Athenæum by a lingering death.

Has drafted a piece [about Descent] but is not pleased with it.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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