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DCP-LETT-1585

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[Sept 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 8 (EH 88206457)
Summary:

Sends beetle he cannot identify.

Reading J. O. Westwood [Introduction to the modern classification of insects (1839–40)] has reawakened his passion for entomology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1588

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Sept [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 124
Summary:

On individuality.

Huxley’s review exquisite, but too severe on Vestiges; sorry for ridicule of Agassiz’s embryonic fishes.

Stonesfield mammals.

J. O. Westwood deserves Royal Society Medal.

Will begin species work in a few days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1593

From:
Richard Thomas Lowe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 392
Summary:

The land shells, both fossil and recent, of Madeira and Porto Santo have features peculiar to them, so RTL would have no difficulty in identifying them.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-384

From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 September 1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 228
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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