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DCP-LETT-3411

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [and 26] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 141
Summary:

His answer to Asa Gray.

On JDH’s view of aristocracy. Primogeniture is dreadfully opposed to selection.

Orchid book proofs ready soon – has no idea whether it is worth publishing.

Huxley on Owen.

Feeble letter from J. H. Balfour against Huxley’s lectures ["Relation of man to lower animals", pt 2 of Man’s place in nature (1863)].

Has received the "astounding" Angraecum sesquipedale with nectary 1ft long: "what insect could suck it?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3412

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 65a
Summary:

Thanks CD for returned MS and letter with its good opinion. Asks CD to write to Murray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11422

From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.333
Summary:

Is grateful to JH for proposing EL as a candidate for the R.S.L. Has been experimenting with ozone; comments on his observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-62-01-25b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
25 January 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70, f. 53
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-01-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
25 January 1862
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Museum Archives. DF3/1/ folder 42, Cranbourne, Australia 1861-1936
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-01-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Rudolph Wagner
Date:
25 January 1862
Source of text:
2° Cod. Ms. Blumenbach VIII, fol. 29-30, Handschriften-Abteilung, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3394

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 6–7
Summary:

Will send an Arethusa; offers other specimens.

Dimorphism.

Falconer contradicts Sumatra and Ceylon elephant story.

Lyell as rabid as ever about America.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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