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DCP-LETT-7228

From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 144
Summary:

Has completed a memoir on the Aymara Indians of Bolivia [J. Ethnol. Soc. n.s. 2 (1870): 193–305] and is going to lecture on them.

Believes he has data relevant to CD’s work on man.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 June 1870?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Orders seeds, ripened in Algiers; imported seed would be of no use. [Forwarded to Algiers by JDH, see 7272.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7228A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
13 June [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 93
Summary:

In his reply to [7227] CD questions the significance of the supposed likeness of the bee, spider, and fly orchids to their presumed namesakes.

He thinks that the beauty of shells is altogether incidental and of no use to the animals.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel3449

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
'Chairman of the Eclipse Committee of the Royal Society'
Date:
[13 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS MC.9.96
Summary:

Cannot attend Eclipse Committee meeting but suggests that an observer carefully look for planets interior to Mercury's orbit, which would, if existing, reach conjunction during total solar eclipses.

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John Herschel Project
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