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DCP-LETT-6461F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
16 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £259 11s. 10d.

Obliged for JH’s good account of Francis Hardy’s management of Beesby Farm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
16 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Eilo Hildebrand (private collection of facsimiles) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018)
Summary:

Thanks for Botanische Zeitung notice of CD’s paper ["On the character and hybrid-like nature of the offspring from the illegitimate unions of dimorphic and trimorphic plants", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 393–437]. FH writes clearest style of all German authors.

Asks that August Weismann be told about papers by Wallace and Bates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11648

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George A. MacFarren
Date:
[16 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.13 & 24.238
Summary:

Is obliged for GM's letter and for the trouble he has taken over JH's paper on musical scales. Object in writing this paper was to clear the ground as it were. Elucidates some of the points in his own paper and comments on parts of GM's paper.

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John Herschel Project
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