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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
October [1867]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 96-100
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 189-192]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
1 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 376
Summary:

Hopes JTM’s health will improve.

Asks for information about crosses of peas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.334)
Summary:

Replies to CL’s further comments [on Variation].

Discusses direct action of the environment as a cause of variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5642

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warington
Date:
7 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (MS1001/95)
Summary:

Admires his paper ["On the credibility of Darwinism", J. Trans. Victoria Inst. 2 (1867): 39–62, and discussion 63–125].

Ridicules William H. Ince and Admiral FitzRoy on their naive ideas about Noah’s ark.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
8 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 14–15)
Summary:

CD provides explanations and advice on translating names and descriptions of breeds of fowls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5620F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
[9 Oct 1867]
Source of text:
Krause 1884 , p. 18
Summary:

Müller’s observations on orchids excellent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
10 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 54–55)
Summary:

Sends a corrected revise to replace a sheet which has been lost in the mail.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5646F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warington
Date:
11 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (15 November 2017)
Summary:

Thanks recipient for the pamphlet, but he had already procured the Transactions.

Does not think that his views on Origin bear in any way on the question whether some one organic being was originally created by God, or appeared spontaneously through the action of natural laws.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Samuelson
Date:
12 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology
Summary:

Thanks for Quarterly Journal of Science 4 (1867). Has just read Wallace’s admirable article in last number ["Creation by law", Q. J. Sci. 4 (1867): 471–88]. He is a master of clear argument.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 and 13 Oct 1867
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434 f. 96)
Summary:

Response to ARW’s "Creation by law", especially the Angraecum sesquipedale and the predicted Madagascar moth.

ARW’s argument on beauty strikes CD as good.

Wishes ARW had made more clear the assumption of the reviewer [in North Br. Rev.] that each variation is a strongly marked one.

The Duke of Argyll’s argument on beauty is not candid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5649

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (95)
Summary:

Sends sheets of first volume of Variation.

Transport of seeds in locust dung.

Pangenesis will be called "a mad dream".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5653

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
19 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 27–28)
Summary:

Concerning German translation of Variation. Fears chapter 27 Pangenesis is very wild, but believes physiologists will some day be compelled to admit some such doctrine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5654

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
19 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 174–175)
Summary:

An absurd error ("Election" for "Selection") in the advertisement of Variation. Dallas is the best man for index.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5659

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
31 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.336)
Summary:

Describes seeds transported in locust dung. Discusses other cases of transport and migration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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