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DCP-LETT-2144

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 218
Summary:

On classification and possibilities of a scientific morphology and zoology. CD’s "pedigree business" is important for physiology but has nothing to do with pure zoology any more than human pedigree has to do with the census. Zoological classification is a census of the animal world.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2158

From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1857
Source of text:
DAR 160: 299
Summary:

Discusses the difficulties of breeding mules by crossing canaries and finches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2160

From:
Thomas Glover
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1857
Source of text:
DAR 165: 58
Summary:

Describes his work, which demonstrates that hybrids of Cactus are fertile.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2159

From:
Walter White
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1857
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 19 (EH 88206071)
Summary:

Writes concerning library books requested by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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