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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
[19] Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 7)
Summary:

CD has followed Lyell’s advice and avoided controversy over Origin but encourages BDW to attack S. H. Scudder and others who argue foolishly or misquote him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
20 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 5)
Summary:

On various subjects: Dana’s misquotations,

H. J. Clark’s book Mind in nature [1865],

BDW’s Cynips experiments, galls,

Balbiani’s paper on aphids ["Sur la reproduction et l’embryogénie des pucerons", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 62 (1866): 1231–4, 1285–9, 1390–4].

Claus and other Germans testing CD’s views of variability in common lower animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
24 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 8)
Summary:

Balbiani’s puzzling observations on Aphis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project