From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Croll
Date:
24 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.271)
Summary:
Thanks JC for his proofs of article on the movement of glaciers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A79–80
Summary:
References to works on probability;
statistics on proportion of sexes in births in England and Wales.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert P. Graves
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.28
Summary:
Package of letters has arrived safely via the Globe Parcel Express Co., for which accept his best thanks. Would like a page or two of JH's recollections of W. R. Hamilton if possible. Has sent a pamphlet on William Wordsworth and the Lake Country.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Chester Tait
Date:
24 Feb 1869
Source of text:
Alan R. Tait (private collection)
Summary:
Discusses method for shipping Drosophyllum specimens.
Asks about inheritance in tailless dogs;
the growth of horns in merino sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project