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FVM-68-03-04

From:
Edmund FitzGibbon
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 March 1868
Source of text:
No. 113/3/68, unit 13, pp. 743-6, VPRS 4025/P Town Clerk's letter press copy books, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13816

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Arrangements to dine at JDH’s club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5979

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
4 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Sends sheets with alterations to be made [in Russian translation of Variation]. VOK should consider adding to the title-page that CD is a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (St Petersburg).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5978

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 f. 36)
Summary:

Payment of 400 guineas [Variation royalties] delights CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5977

From:
Jonathan Peel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 96–7
Summary:

Sends copy of a paper on his flock of sheep, which confirms much of what CD says in Variation,

together with a note he made of an instance of cattle "determining the existence" of a tree [cf. Origin, ch. 3].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5980

From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B66–7
Summary:

Proportions of sexes of the silkworm are about equal, but knows of no statistics.

Cannot share his view of origin of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5975

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sedgwick
Date:
4 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.347)
Summary:

Thanks WS for information about moss roses and the Le Compte family.

Mentions WS’s recent papers on inheritance [Brit. & Foreign Med.-Chirurg. Rev. (1867)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5976

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski
Date:
4 Mar 1868
Source of text:
Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 1. Register 2-1868. Folder 17. P65, 65 r)
Summary:

Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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