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DCP-LETT-1578A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
16 Aug [1854-8]
Source of text:
DAR 224
Summary:

Should like to examine the correspondent’s Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-383

From:
Joseph George Cumming
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 August 1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 105
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1581

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 384
Summary:

JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.

Insects found in coal.

Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.

JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].

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DCP-LETT-1582

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
26 [Aug 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 272
Summary:

Discusses specimen of Balanus crenatus.

Sorry JP’s children are ill.

Will come to Liverpool if well [for meeting of BAAS].

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