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DCP-LETT-2774

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 150–1, DAR 166.2: 262
Summary:

Has examined Leschenaultia and concludes the external viscid surfaces have nothing to do with the stigmatic surface. Agrees with CD’s style and nectary conclusions; accounts for their form and position in irregular flowers by describing floral development.

[Enclosed are some queries by CD with answers by JDH. Gives information on seed setting by Mucuna

and an opinion on the abruptness of N. and S. limits of plant ranges.]

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DCP-LETT-2640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Bridges
Date:
6 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 185: 72
Summary:

Queries on expression among Fuegians and Patagonians.

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DCP-LETT-2694

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13–14 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 283, DAR 205.9: 395
Summary:

Discusses phases of climate.

Describes fossil mammals discovered by Auguste Bravard in South America.

Has had argument with Bishop of Oxford [Samuel Wilberforce] about CD’s book [Origin].

Discusses review in Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Guesses that T. V. Wollaston is the author.

Discusses evidence of shells on Madeira.

Comments on paper by Wallace ["On the zoological geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 4 (1860): 172–84].

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DCP-LETT-2924

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[22–3 Sept 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 12 (EH 88205996) and part of DAR 261.10: 18 (EH 88206002)
Summary:

Sends address.

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DCP-LETT-2968

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 6, 58.2: 49–52
Summary:

Sends CD passages from A. S. Taylor’s book [On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 2d ed. (1859)], citing smallest portions of poisons that are chemically detectable. "Drosera beats the chemists hollow."

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DCP-LETT-2980

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 7, 9
Summary:

Explains discrepancies in weights and measures caused by changes since 1836 in apothecaries’ measures.

EC has found that a discrepancy in A. W. von Hofmann’s experiments with iodine solutions resulted from an error in Hofmann’s use of decimals.

Reports S. P. Woodward’s opinion of the Origin: "a very sad book, it unsettles all one’s religious principles and the worst of it is so much of it is true".

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DCP-LETT-3036

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 May – 3 Dec 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 217 (Letters), DAR 47: 214
Summary:

CD’s divergent series explains those anomalous plants that hover between what would otherwise be two species in a genus.

Inclined to see conifers as a sub-series of dicotyledons that developed in parallel to monocotyledons, but retained cryptogamic characters.

Mentions H. C. Watson’s view of variations.

Man has destroyed more species than he has created varieties.

Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.

In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".

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FL-0296

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[27 January 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 53
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-0297

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[16 February 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 54
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0298

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[September 1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 57
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0398

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[8 May 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 27
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0399

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 28
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0400

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
22 and 23 July 1860
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 29
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0401

From:
Darwin, Emma; Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[26 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 30
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0402

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[12 August 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 32
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0404

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[23 November 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 34
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0405

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[6 December 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 35
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1016

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[1860s]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.6
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1084

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Elizabeth
Date:
[late 1860s]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-1252

From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1860–62]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2223
Summary:

No summary available.

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