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RS-MM-000936

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
29 December 1868
Source of text:
MM/14/211, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-6515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 108—9
Summary:

JDH’s letter invaluable for an answer to Nägeli’s essay [Entstehung und Begriff der Naturhistorischen Art (1865)].

Has gone through his index to Gardeners’ Chronicle but finds little of use to JDH for his Flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8703

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Henry Taylor
Date:
[29 December 1868]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Has received HT's pamphlet on crime and its prevention and punishment. Praises it and questions some particulars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6514

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.358)
Summary:

Discusses experiments in breeding fowls.

Comments on letter from S. O. Glenie [see 6440] concerning the eyes of trumpeting elephants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6516

From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 159
Summary:

Observations that confirm CD’s deduction that half-bred Persian cats are fruitful one with another. Relates case of Persian characters reappearing in the offspring of a common cat which was the descendant of a half-bred Persian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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