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DCP-LETT-2427

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9–12 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 288
Summary:

Serial homologies in the Mollusca. Gives instances of repetition of homological parts in Radiata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2428

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 152–3
Summary:

Outlines the basic categories of phanerogams.

Places Gymnospermae in the dicotyledons.

Evaluates the variable utility of embryological characters in plant classification.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13854

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13–19 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 262
Summary:

HW has confirmed the report in the Times of a shower of fish (minnows and sticklebacks) that fell on the Wedgwood colliery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2433

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1859
Source of text:
DAR 170: 22
Summary:

Embryology of Diptera. Development of insects; metamorphosis. JL feels all insects go through metamorphosis but that in some of them, part takes place before birth.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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