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DCP-LETT-6454

From:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 18
Summary:

Asks permission to dedicate to CD his book on the fossil animals and geology of Attica [Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique (1862–7)]. CD will find much in it relating to the "filiation" of species, genera, and families.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6452

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 50
Summary:

Thanks CD for comments [on Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts].

Comments on Goethe and Kant as early evolutionists.

Describes birth of his son. Mentions child’s "atavisms".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10179

From:
John Henry Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.66
Summary:

Is grateful for his paper on musical scales. Comments on the characteristics of wind instruments. Some friends of his saw a brilliant meteor fall last Tuesday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6453

From:
Edmund Langton
To:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:
9 Nov [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A93–4
Summary:

Observations on a Sphinx moth; attraction of dark spots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-001481

From:
William Sharpey
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
9 November 1868
Source of text:
MM/19/81, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10872

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.221
Summary:

Has placed Mr. Frosmard's letter before the Geological Society, and also discussed the matter with R. I. Murchison, but regrets he is unable to help.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP666

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
9 November 1868
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418307
Summary:

Discusses an observation concerning a blackbird and a hairy caterpillar.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5756

From:
Edmund Langton; Charles Langton
To:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:
[after 9 Nov 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A95
Summary:

Some observations by EL on moths visiting flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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