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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 27 Sept 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 82: B16–20; DAR 84.2: 168
Summary:

Replies to CD’s queries on sexual habits and differences in fish and lizards.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
F. Charsley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.249
Summary:

Proposals for new footpath at Slough near his property; would JH object?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
27 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks AG for full answers to queries.

Delighted Mr Ford will undertake drawings [for Descent]; comments on some illustrations he would like.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Reuter
Date:
27 Sept 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 224–225)
Summary:

Thanks AR for specimens and notes. Will keep them for future edition [of Variation]. Particularly struck by difference in hardiness of varieties of Syringa persica.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
F. Charsley
Date:
[1869-9-27 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.249verso
Summary:

Reply to FC's 1869-9-27.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.57
Summary:

Is much obliged for the more correct determination of Mercury. As soon as he gets his new apparatus he will try to obtain observations of the planet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Fowler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
27 September [1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.354
Summary:

Consider his note on empirical laws as unwritten as he intends introducing a paragraph on this subject. Gives a list of the contents of his book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project