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DCP-LETT-4273A

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 16
Summary:

Sends information about Pliocene fauna of the "Forest Bed" of the Norfolk coast.

A genus described as extinct by Owen is found by E. A. I. H. Lartet to exist in Russia.

Edouard Suess attributes to Oswald Heer and HF the generalisation "That the time during which a new species is formed, is (as a rule) very short in comparison with the time during which it persistently presents the same peculiar specific characters". [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math-naturw. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31.] [See 4277.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-63-08-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
24 August 1863
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP4795

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edmund Major Wilson
Date:
24 August 1863
Source of text:
John Greenell Wilson (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4277

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[25–6 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 32
Summary:

Thanks for information about Pliocene mammal. Interested in relating process of formation to duration of the species. Oswald Heer’s view that species suddenly formed surely false.

Bad summer with much sickness. Going to Malvern [for water-cure] for a month.

Muddled over phyllotaxy and made out nothing.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-63-08-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
25 August 1863
Source of text:
Eduard Fenzl Nachlass, Archiv der Universität Wien
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4274

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 204
Summary:

CD’s illness: he is vomiting "vegetable" cells.

Dutrochet has published the best of CD’s observations on tendrils [see Climbing plants, p. 1 n.].

Lyell has found Joshua Trimmer’s Arctic shells on Moel Tryfan.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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SOMERVILLE318

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
25 Aug 1863
Source of text:
HS 16.371, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2679

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.371
Summary:

Thanks JH for criticism of manuscript. Sends revised introductory paragraph. Thanks him for kindness to Signore Capellini. Scientific interest in Italy grows as politics settle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4357

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Vincent
Date:
25 August 1863
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4275

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 157–8
Summary:

JDH working on the New Zealand flora.

Jules Planchon excited about CD’s Linum experiments.

T. F. Jamieson’s paper on glaciers gives great pleasure.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2028

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Augst 26th/63
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/249, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4315

From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 27 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 378
Summary:

Discusses and suggests treatments for CD’s stomach complaint. Recommends he consult William Brinton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2029

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1863 August 27
Source of text:
MS JT/1/A/37; MS JT/1/TYP/1/27, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4278

From:
John Goodsir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 74
Summary:

Has found no Sarcina on the slides of fluid [see 4272] and nothing referable to the food. Will repeat examination if vomiting recurs.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4276

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 156
Summary:

Suggests CD consult George Busk about his stomach.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4279

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
27 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 57)
Summary:

Discusses methods of pollination in orchids.

Thinks RT should investigate Physianthus to see if it requires insect aid for fertilisation as the Asclepiadaceae do.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4279F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[after 27 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 172
Summary:

[Roland] Trimen of the Cape of Good Hope sends evidence that a moth [Achaea chamaeleon] is capable of perforating the skin of a peach with its delicate proboscis. Have any readers observed moths or butterflies sucking any fruit of which the skin was not previously broken?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4281

From:
John Goodsir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 75
Summary:

The phial of fluid sent by CD is acid. Sends his microscopical examination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4280

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 205
Summary:

Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.

Climbing plants: asks for more plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2030

From:
Thomas E. Jenkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Aug 28th 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/26, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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