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DCP-LETT-13814

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1846–54]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 216 (Letters)
Summary:

Lateral teeth in Arcadae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13830

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1846?]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 319
Summary:

Gives CD page references [in The new statistical account of Scotland, vol. 14, pp 446, 507] for information regarding parallel roads.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-939

From:
George Brettingham Sowerby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 5
Summary:

Note on editorial details concerning names of fossil shells [for South America, appendix]. The Latin for "Darwin" is "Darvinius".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-942

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
[16 Jan 1846]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D16)
Summary:

Thanks JWL for having acceded to CD’s wish to acquire a piece of land to provide a sheltered walk at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-943

From:
George Brettingham Sowerby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1846
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 1c–2
Summary:

Describes his reasoning in classifying CD’s Turritella ambulacrum specimens into two sorts. GBS holds that distinguishing characters, whether of species or varieties, should always be noticed. [See South America, appendix, pl. III, fig. 49.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-646

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian Jackson
Date:
[28 Jan or 4 Feb] 1846
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Enclosed MS by Lieut. W. Christopher misrepresents CD’s views. Contains errors in zoology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-945

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Jan 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 53
Summary:

Disappointed with Webb and Berthelot.

Delighted to hear of more species from the Galapagos, surprised to hear W. Indian character of flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-946

From:
Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1846
Source of text:
DAR 39.2: 128–9, DAR 43.1: 66–7
Summary:

Sends identifications of CD’s Bahia Blanca fossil shells [see 830].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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