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DCP-LETT-3420

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses manuscript by H. W. Bates [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].

Mentions CD’s forthcoming book [Orchids].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3463

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28–31 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.274)
Summary:

Suggests that the height of the water which formed the shelves in Glen Roy was determined not by the height of the blocking glacier but by the height of a col. Notes problems in the idea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5319

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Nov 1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.324a)
Summary:

Says Jacob W. Velie wants to exchange birds’ skins with European naturalist.

Comments on meaning of "Darwinism".

Encloses papers from Practical Entomologist.

Discusses Ornithorhynchus paradoxus

and his paper on willow galls.

Mentions human skull found in California.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6643

From:
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 248
Summary:

Explains how he, as "an orthodox clergyman" reading CD’s works, was totally convinced by his arguments. Expresses pleasure "that Science might make gigantic strides without offering such collateral opinions as, if true, would certainly dispense with clergymen altogether".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6877

From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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