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DCP-LETT-1853

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
13 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 16)
Summary:

Thanks HTS for Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [no. 2, 12 Apr 1856]. Agrees with his remarks [in "Why did Mr Westwood get the Royal Medal?"], but explains that a change in rules for awarding the Royal Medal has been made. Earlier it had to be given for publications in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which explains small number of entomologist recipients.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1879

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
27 May [1856]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/5)
Summary:

Thanks for answer to query. "I see … that there is no hope of comparing the same genus at two different periods, and seeing whether the tendency to vary is greater at one period in such genus than at another period."

Inclined to dispute SPW’s doctrine that islands are generally ancient. Doubts that they are remnants of continents.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1915

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
1 July [1856]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 69)
Summary:

Requests information on ranges of echinoderms for his essay on variation [Natural selection]. Are there genera with representative species in northern and southern seas, but none in tropics?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1182

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
John Gould
Date:
28 October 1856
Source of text:
Natural History Museum Library and Archives, London The Correspondence of John Gould (1804-1881) Z MSS GOU A (Box 5)
Summary:

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Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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