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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[early August 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 76
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 189: 9
Summary:
A memorandum describing the expressive behaviour of a cat with added notes by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
R. S. Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1863-8
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.112
Summary:
Sending papers to JH and would be glad if he would communicate them either to the B.A.A.S. or some influential journal.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
1 and 3 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 93: B24, B27–8, B70; DAR 147: 455
Summary:
Thanks JS for orchid paper [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50]. JS presents excellent new facts on sterility of orchids.
His argument that coloured primroses are not hybrids is good, as is idea of discovering primrose parentage by breeding for colours.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[1863-8]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #30
Summary:
Describes in vivid detail the account of an 'extraordinary meteor' in October 1854. Given by a person from Hurworth.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-8?-1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.146, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project