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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 April [1870]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 202-203
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 252]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 236]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7046

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Apr 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 12
Summary:

Is leaving tonight for Genoa;

sends a French paper [not identified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7168

From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 209
Summary:

Asks CD to look at the "special phylogonies" on pp. 138 and 152 of his book [Forms of animal life (1870)]. His comments are based on reading Haeckel, who is highly speculative and quite wrong.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12882

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editor of Pall Mall Budget
Date:
[20 April 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0293; Reel 1054
Summary:

Examples from Iliad and other sources to show that military offensive tactic called 'Vertical Fire' did not originate with [L. N. M.] Carnot, as Mr. Mallet claimed in recent issue of Budget.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7168A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Tord Tamerlau Teodor Thorell
Date:
20 Apr 1870
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1997)
Summary:

Thanks TTTT for his study of European spiders [On European spiders Part 1 (1869–70)] which bases its classification system on the theory of evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Apr [1870]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 202–3)
Summary:

Appreciation of eulogy in preface of ARW’s book [Theory of natural selection].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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