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Herschel3108

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 August 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.273 (C: Académie belgique: #56)
Summary:

Is trying to get JH 2 copies of Physique sociale. Discusses additions. Addresses JH's comments concerning power of a supreme being. Sends 19th volume of annals of observatory and AQ's work on international congress on statistics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6860

From:
John Blackwall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: 82–3
Summary:

Immature male spiders usually resemble in colour the females of their species of the same age. In some species colours of sexes differ when mature.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6859

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Aug [1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/8)
Summary:

THF’s view, if confirmed, pleases CD in that what appears a mere morphological character is found to be of use. Carl Nägeli has been attacking him on this head.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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