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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
1 Sept [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.157)
Summary:

Explains that he cannot serve as President of the Zoological Section at the BAAS meeting [1858].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
8 Sept [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has finished with and is disposing of his pigeons.

Invites WBT to Down; would like to see his bees’ cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Burningham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Sept 1858?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 186 (fragile)
Summary:

Reports his observations on an ants’ nest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 194
Summary:

Cannot explain impurity of his alleged pure lines.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 [Sept 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 29
Summary:

Discusses domestic affairs.

Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].

Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
28 Sept 1858
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR3: 41)
Summary:

Recommends W. B. Carpenter’s latest part of memoir on Foraminifera be published in Philosophical Transactions [R. Soc. Lond. 149 (1859): 1–41].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project