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Herschel10181

From:
Amédée Victor Guillemin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.68
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's kind action [see AG's 1863-1-30]. Address the parcels to the London address of Hachette.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3974

From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 162: 42
Summary:

Has read Origin with satisfaction. He had long ago come to consider the fixity of species as contrary to the facts, but could see no suitable alternative. The Origin has brought the light to guide him.

Sends CD a copy of his latest work ["Mémoire sur la production artificielle des monstruosités", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 243–76]. Hopes to explain a great number of anomalies by his experimental work on artificially produced monstrosities.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-63-02-08

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Euphemia Henderson
Date:
8 February 1863
Source of text:
RB MSS M41, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3973

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[8 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 19)
Summary:

On six-fingered men: suspects increase confined to metacarpals and digits. Has asked James Paget to look it up.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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