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WCP3585

From:
James Brooke
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
24 December 1858
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 JAMES BROOKE
Summary:

Brooke returns ARW’s papers relating to Sarawak and Sadong. [Wallace, A. R. 1856. Notes of a Journey Up the Sadong River, North-West Borneo. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, 1(6): 193-205.] He is critical of ARW’s views on the tendency of the Dayaks towards extinction. Brooke is unwell and expresses a “cool” attitude towards the signs of death.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2384

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 257
Summary:

Wide-ranging species more "improved" than relics in small areas because they exist in large numbers and thus are subject to intense competition.

His abstract is 330 folio pages long so far.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2383

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

Thanks for some poultry breeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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