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DCP-LETT-6473

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
24 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 143: 353
Summary:

Comments on glaciers in North America.

Asks if glacial periods have occurred alternately in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Relevant to his glacial discoveries in South America: "it would have been an immense relief to my mind if I could have assumed … this". CD wishes to discuss subject in new edition of Origin [5th].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6471

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 240–1
Summary:

On H. C. Watson’s false and contemptuous criticism of [J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson] Flora Indica [1855].

W. B. Carpenter’s deep-sea dredgings.

James Croll’s last paper ["On geological time", Philos. Mag. 35 (1868): 363; 36 (1868): 141, 362].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6472

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Rolle
Date:
24 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle)
Summary:

Thanks for information on fowls.

Glad to see extracts from Blumenbach about sexual differences in fowls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12140

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Main
Date:
[24 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.240
Summary:

Seems to JH to be some systematic error in some of RM's observations; JH includes examples.

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John Herschel Project
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