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From:
Darwin, G. H.; Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[1 March 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 38
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 5
Summary:
Has finished geographical distribution chapter and asks JDH to read it.
Is it just to say embryological characters are of high importance in plant classification?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
H. T. Stainton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
4 March 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 335
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 6
Summary:
Will read JDH’s printers’ slips on variation.
CD has been so ill, he wonders whether he will get his book done, though so nearly completed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
8 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 29 (EH 88206478)
Summary:
Wants examples of insects (especially Diptera) in which embryo resembles adult, to show that the metamorphic stages may be lost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
H. T. Stainton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 March 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 336
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9–12 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 288
Summary:
Serial homologies in the Mollusca. Gives instances of repetition of homological parts in Radiata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 152–3
Summary:
Outlines the basic categories of phanerogams.
Places Gymnospermae in the dicotyledons.
Evaluates the variable utility of embryological characters in plant classification.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 7
Summary:
Sends MS [of Origin] on geographical distribution. Wants JDH to correct facts and say what he most vehemently objects to.
Has received JDH’s note on plant embryology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[12 March 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 39
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 March 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 203
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13–19 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 262
Summary:
HW has confirmed the report in the Times of a shower of fish (minnows and sticklebacks) that fell on the Wedgwood colliery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[after 14 March 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 40
Summary:
Writes of events at Down: mostly of playing billiards on their new table.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 8
Summary:
Will finish last chapter (except recapitulation) tomorrow.
Pleased with JDH’s response to geographical distribution chapter;
CD disagrees with Lyell’s view that glacial epoch is connected with position of continents.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1859
Source of text:
DAR 170: 22
Summary:
Embryology of Diptera. Development of insects; metamorphosis. JL feels all insects go through metamorphosis but that in some of them, part takes place before birth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
16 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 28 (EH 88206477)
Summary:
Wants JL’s opinion on paper by L. J. M. Dufour ["Études anatomiques sur les insectes diptères de la famille des pupipares", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 19 (1844): 1345–55].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
21 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 30 (EH 88206479)
Summary:
Development of aphids; apparent absence of vermiform stage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[24 March 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 42
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 March 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 79
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project