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DCP-LETT-13840

From:
Caroline Jemima (Caroline) Shuttleworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov [1871-80]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 158
Summary:

Reports peculiar behaviour in a fantail pigeon, which persistently courted a ginger-beer bottle.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 445–8
Summary:

CD is considering repeating experiments on melastomads in which different pollen sizes produced differing seedling sizes.

Responds to JDH’s query on differences in pollen within the same species.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4572

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Robert McLachlan
Date:
28 November 1871
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 223
Summary:

ARW has acted on Dunning's advice (re. Hampden).

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-11-29

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Louis Agassiz
Date:
29 November 1871
Source of text:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Agassiz Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8088

From:
Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 159
Summary:

Thanks CD for copies of the Origin and Cirripedia;

sends his latest publication in return [Beiträge zur Parthenogenesis der Arthropoden (1871)]. Discusses his work on parthenogenesis which, he believes, is a case of atavism.

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