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DCP-LETT-2627

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Dec? 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 45: 1
Summary:

Gives an extract from L. von Buch on the flora of the Canaries [Physikalische Beschreibung der Canarische Inseln (1825)].

Natural selection does not explain why animals of different groups in the same place often resemble each other.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-60-12-01

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Heales
Date:
1 December 1860
Source of text:
Q60/10872, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday3916

From:
James Timmins Chance
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 December 1860
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/5, f.148-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3915

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
1 December 1860
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/4/31
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2564

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
1 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 367
Summary:

Must prepare new edition of Origin.

Discusses structure of beehives. Mentions writings of Chauncey Wright on bees’ cells ["Remarks on the architecture of bees", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 4 (1857–60): 432–3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4079

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[Charles Robert] [Darwin]
Date:
[December?] [1860]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 45: 1b
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel6836

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.146
Summary:

Please accept his thanks for his article on telescopes. Comments on JH's views. Would like 50 copies of the article to distribute to opticians.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12375

From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.232
Summary:

Many thanks for JH's article on the telescope; will read it with much interest. Has employed an assistant to prepare drawings of the nebula. The six-foot reflector requires repolishing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3003

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
2 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 149)
Summary:

Is sick of hostile reviews but they have helped in showing where he must expatiate and expand in new edition of Origin.

Has more confidence in the general truth of his view. Disappointed THH does not think it more probable than he did at first.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3917

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
3 December 1860
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/5, f.150-52b
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3919

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 December 1860
Source of text:
RGO 6/326, f.142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3920

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 December 1860
Source of text:
RGO 6/436, f.168
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1750

From:
John Ball
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
p. 387-8, Life and Work of John Tyndall
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3918

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
James Timmins Chance
Date:
3 December 1860
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3004

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
3 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.80–81)
Summary:

Asks again how great a hurry there is for new edition [of Origin, 3d ed.]. Corrections will enlarge volume by a dozen or twenty pages, plus a short historical sketch. Would like "With Corrections" in title.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3005

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
3 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12)
Summary:

"You cannot tell how much your paper on Gestation has interested me" ["On some unusual modes of gestation in batrachians and fishes", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 27 (1859): 5–13].

Robert McDonnell has made curious discoveries on electrical organs of rays.

Is giving JW’s hog case in corrected ed. [3d] of Origin.

Would like account of tip of tail of young rattlesnake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3922

From:
Frederick Ransome
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 December 1860
Source of text:
The Times, 25 December 1860, p.8, col.f
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3008

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 78
Summary:

Third edition of Origin will answer reviewers.

Drosera experiments detailed.

Hopes for W. H. Harvey’s conversion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3006

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.236)
Summary:

Sale of Origin requires new edition [3d (Apr 1861)].

Further discussion of geological elevation and subsidence in Europe. Compares evidence to that of South America. His theory that semi-fluid matter underlies earth’s crust.

Mentions David Forbes’s explanation of South American nitrate deposits.

Has followed CL’s advice not to reply directly to reviewers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3921

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
4 December 1860
Source of text:
RGO 6/436, f.169
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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