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DCP-LETT-2261

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[28 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 34
Summary:

CD recounts an idyllic stroll and nap – "as pleasant a rural scene as ever I saw, and I did not care one penny how any of the beasts or birds had been formed".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2264

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[28 Apr 1858]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Returns MS [of "Variation of species"]; several facts were new to him, especially interested in wagtails.

Wishes he could swallow Florent Prévost on sparrows ["Du régime alimentaire des oiseaux", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 46 (1858): 136–8].

LJ’s facts seem to bear out CD’s conclusion that secondary sexual characters were most variable of all.

Explains how he intends to deal with variation, and general facts in natural history in the light of species theory. Can only afford one chapter on variation in nature. It seems more important to make out variation in domestic animals.

Asks for facts on birds’ nests for his chapter on instincts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2382

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[28 April 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.230
Summary:

Must hold to 1/290 as measure of ellipticity. Committee agrees to recommend continuance of magnetic observations if JH will continue to do what he has done in the past.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-505

From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
28 April 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 313
Summary:

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Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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