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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
18 Mar [1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 168
Summary:

CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 200
Summary:

Two students express their gratitude and admiration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
18 March 1873
Source of text:
McGill University
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Nicols 1885, pp. 51–2
Summary:

Compares sense of smell in dogs and cats.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
19 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 352
Summary:

Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.

Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Pengelly
Date:
19 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Documenting History (dealers) (1995)
Summary:

Thanks WP for his accounts of sagacity of dogs. "I can believe almost anything about them."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Guilfoyle
Date:
20 March 1873
Source of text:
RB MSS 439c, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[20 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Nicols 1885 , p. 52
Summary:

Responds to AN’s observations on sense of smell in cats and dogs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
20 March 1873
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM DF205-10-120a, 120c
Summary:

Offering his collection of Malayan birds to the Museum for £1000.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
G. H Eggers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 163: 9
Summary:

An admirer sends clipping from Bremen newspaper on hybrid between orange and lemon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 March 1873
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 264-265
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
21 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 158
Summary:

Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jan Constantijn Costerus; Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
Date:
[22?] Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 139.12: 11
Summary:

Thanks them for their kind letter and interest in his work. Sends photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johannes Nepomuk (Johannes) Huber
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 166: 280
Summary:

Describes his critique of natural selection [Die Lehre Darwins kritisch betrachtet (1871)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
23 March 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 78-9; 1858-70, ff. 34, 31
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Casey
Date:
23 March 1873
Source of text:
73-5319, unit 417, VPRS 44 inward registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
23 March 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 77
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[1 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 239.2: 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 89: 83–4
Summary:

Gives some information on variation of ocelli between sexes in butterfly species.

Proposes publishing a series of papers on mimicry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Monteagle, Lord
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
24 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 239.2: 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters