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DCP-LETT-2133

From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 16: 223
Summary:

He was unaware that varieties occurred proportionately more in large genera.

Recommends a work [Leonard Gyllenhaal, Insecta Suecica, 4 vols. (1808–27)] for tabulating varieties.

Lists "close geographical representatives of Europaean species" based on the species numbers [in T. V. Wollaston, Catalogue of the coleopterous insects of Madeira (1857)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2165

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 161: 192
Summary:

Responds to CD’s article on kidney beans [Collected papers 1: 275–7]. Sends beans as evidence of crossing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2167

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 11.2: 65a
Summary:

Sends drawings of two forms of workers of Cryptocerus discocephalus in response to CD’s request for examples of insects whose workers show disparity of form.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2171

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 161: 193
Summary:

More on kidney bean crosses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2172

From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 91: 81
Summary:

CD is informed that a certain work [unspecified] is not available separately.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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