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DCP-LETT-2450A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
9 Apr [1859]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into W. B. Tegetmeier’s presentation copy of Origin (DC BD 309); General Special Collections DC AL 1/6)
Summary:

Thanks WBT for his help with poultry

and informs him about his forthcoming work [Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2455F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Smith
Date:
29 Apr [1859]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archive (General Special Collections DC AL 1/22)
Summary:

Has FS observed the slaves of Formica sanguinea foraging outside the nest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-59-11-17a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
17 November 1859
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
10 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/211, 213)
Summary:

Sends source of description of swimming bear catching insects [Samuel Hearne, A journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the northern ocean … (1795); see Origin, p. 184].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/195)
Summary:

Responds to Owen’s remarks that his book [Origin] is not likely to be true because it attempts to explain so much. CD describes how, for fear this might be so, he resolved to give up the work if he could not convince two or three competent judges. He is sensitive because of unjust things said by a distinguished friend [A. Sedgwick]. Value of his views now depends on men eminent in science.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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