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DCP-LETT-5142

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Admiralty
Date:
[2–4 July 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 25–6
Summary:

Petition earnestly requesting that a ship surveying the Strait of Magellan collect fossil bones in the south of Patagonia.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5139

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 79–80
Summary:

Suggests a memorial from Huxley, Murchison, and other geologists on the Gallegos fossils. He will speak privately to Duke of Somerset.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5140

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 106: B33–8
Summary:

Lengthy analysis of sources of misunderstanding of natural selection. Advocacy of Spencer’s term "survival of the fittest" instead of "Natural Selection". ARW urges CD to stress frequency of variations.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1871

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1866
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B33-38
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 66-69
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 170-174]
Summary:

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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