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DCP-LETT-2144

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 218
Summary:

On classification and possibilities of a scientific morphology and zoology. CD’s "pedigree business" is important for physiology but has nothing to do with pure zoology any more than human pedigree has to do with the census. Zoological classification is a census of the animal world.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-57-10-03

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Augustus Gregory
Date:
3 October 1857
Source of text:
MS Q442 inward correspondence, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel4848

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.235 (C: RGO 6.377.437)
Summary:

Regarding orbits of comets. Lunar elements JH requires are given in P. A. Hansen's tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2150

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Oct [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 139)
Summary:

Thinks naturalists look for something further than Cuvier’s view of classification. Poses a theoretical problem on the classification of the races of man to prove that a genealogical system is best.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3339

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 October 1857
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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