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DCP-LETT-2446

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Apr [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 9
Summary:

Thanks for letter of caution about Murray. He has offered to publish without seeing MS. CD thinks book will be popular to a certain extent. Lyell’s inducing Murray to publish Origin grates CD’s pride.

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DCP-LETT-2450

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Apr [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 10
Summary:

Has read first sheets of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae [introductory] essay [published separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. Criticises lack of evidence supporting views that best marked varieties occur at edges of range of species and that species remain under cultivation for many generations and suddenly begin to vary.

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DCP-LETT-2444

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8–11 Apr 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 127
Summary:

Lyell has been strongly urging John Murray to publish CD’s book [Origin]. JDH feels Lyell overestimates the public interest in such works.

Gives examples of plants showing most marked varieties on the edge of their range.

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HENSLOW-287

From:
W. H. Miller
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 April 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2452

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Apr [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 11
Summary:

Murray has read first three chapters of Origin and abides by his offer to publish.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2453

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 [Apr 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 12
Summary:

CD agrees cultivated plants may begin to vary after some time and then may vary suddenly, but cautions JDH on lack of evidence. His explanation is that small variations are ignored until they accumulate.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-598

From:
Lord Ducie
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 April 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 130
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-524

From:
H. T. Stainton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 April 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 337
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2454

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Apr 1859
Source of text:
DAR 206 (Letters)
Summary:

Questions about stripes on mules.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2456

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1859
Source of text:
DAR 177: 192 (fragile)
Summary:

Reports his observations on the habits of slave-making ants (Formica sanguinea).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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