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DCP-LETT-3612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 June 1862
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.279)
Summary:

Testimonial in support of WBT’s application for curatorship of the Hartley Institution.

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DCP-LETT-5567

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
10 June [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.330) & DAR 96: 28–9, 32
Summary:

Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].

Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.

Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.

Discusses correlation of growth.

Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].

Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.

[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]

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DCP-LETT-6343

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 319
Summary:

Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6422

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
17 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 320
Summary:

Enjoyed JJW’s visit.

Interested in changes in plumage of pheasants.

Still at work on sexual selection in birds.

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