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DCP-LETT-2070

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Sept 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 48: A80–1
Summary:

Suggests CD use the common origin of the French "chef" and the English "head" or "évêque" and "bishop" to illustrate the parallels between extinction and transitional forms in language and palaeontology [see Natural selection, p. 384].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel26

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[29 September 1857]
Source of text:
RGO 6.377.433
Summary:

Asks GA for clarification of the value for the 'mean equatorial horizontal parallax' of the moon, since two different values are given by different authors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2146

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
29 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Will collect no more pigeons. Is awaiting Burmese fowls’ skins coming via Berlin.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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