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From:
Richard Barwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 52a
Summary:

Crying and the action of the orbicularis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 288
Summary:

Thanks CD for his photograph.

Intends to start experimenting with mosses to determine which differences in structure are effected by altered conditions of life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 172–3
Summary:

Notes on sexual differences within certain species of birds.

Contributor:
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From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868–70?]
Source of text:
DAR 80: 164–5
Summary:

Development of complex language does not require an early civilisation. [See Descent 1: 56ff.]

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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Allen, Fanny
Date:
[1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.11: 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1868 or 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 65
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1868]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 281
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1868]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 282
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1868]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 283
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1868]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 284
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1868]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 285
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 286
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin@, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1868 or 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 66
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 207
Summary:

Reports making graft-hybrid potatoes.

Has found direct action of pollen in Mays [Zea] crosses and apple-trees.

F. Delpino has asked for CD’s address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Wrigley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 180
Summary:

Expresses his gratification on reading of Leonard Darwin’s high placing on the Sandhurst list.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 172: 14
Summary:

CD has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Biology Section of the Académie Impériale des Sciences, St Petersburg.

Contributor:
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 211
Summary:

Discusses mule canaries which show a tendency to revert to wild plumage colours.

Contributor:
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From:
Frederik Anthony von Hartsen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 113
Summary:

Sends portion of his book, Grundlegung von Aesthetik [1869]. Argues that CD’s theory can be reconciled with religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Jan 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 194
Summary:

Discusses Balanophora with conspicuous male flowers and absent female perianth.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
6 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 77
Summary:

Asks about expression of emotion among Negroes and American Indians in Nicaragua. Queries enclosed.

Contributor:
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