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DCP-LETT-7011

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
25 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 678–9)
Summary:

CD finds GB’s address interesting; assures him that he has never said GB was wrong on any point, but that there were differences between them, which he now thinks are not great.

Comments on specific parts of the address [see 6793]: colonisation, variability of large and small genera, descent from a single parent or pair of parents, rapid multiplication and change in species, isolation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7010

From:
Charles Boner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 238
Summary:

Gives account of inherited blindness in a family,

and observations contravening CD’s view in Variation that sheep and other domestic animals never run wild.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2230

From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 November 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 142-143
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-11-25

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 November 1869
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7009

From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 159: 84
Summary:

Asks CD to have stereotype plates made of new edition of Origin [5th English], if type still standing, though Appleton will reset type if necessary. Warns there is smaller audience in the U. S. for "good scientific books".

Appleton would also like plates made of new book [Descent] when possible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel924

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[25 November 1869]
Source of text:
JHS 5.46
Summary:

Is not prepared to come to any distinct conclusions about the effect of local attractions in geodetic surveying, but talks about the problem for the whole letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13363

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William James Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0566; Reel 1053
Summary:

Questions about Indian civil law regarding Bengal promisory notes and duties on probate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7012

From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 165
Summary:

Comments on CD’s observations on his address; clarifies his view of the importance of isolation, the effect of climate, the plants of S. Africa and Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7012F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James (Charles) Layton
Date:
26 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
Bonhams, New York (dealers) (13 June 2019, lot 5)
Summary:

The 5th edition of Origin was printed some months previously and stereotypes cannot be supplied.

If Appletons will reprint the 5th edition of Origin in America, he pledges to supply stereotypes, if possible, or the sheets as printed if not, of his new book (Descent).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6539

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 [Nov 1869 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B66
Summary:

Has seen J. J. Sylvester again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1321

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[27 November 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 606
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-7013

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
[27 Nov 1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12)
Summary:

Encloses extract from a letter from Fritz Müller about humming-birds visiting Passiflora, "as a caution about Passiflora in contrast with Tacsonia".

[Signed with CD’s name by Emma Darwin.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7014

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
Date:
27 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 362
Summary:

Not willing to sit for photographer again.

ABM’s translation of Wallace’s Malay Archipelago has not yet arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7015

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 61
Summary:

Agrees that it is wise to delay [publishing?] on Passiflora.

Puts queries he wants CD to send [to Fritz Müller] on bees visiting flowers in winter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7016

From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 55
Summary:

Reports a case of a smooth-leaved holly tree with one branch of prickly leaves; is willing to supply more details.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-11-29

From:
Prospero Ramel
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 November 1869
Source of text:
RB MSS M197, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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