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DCP-LETT-3905

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
7 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44)
Summary:

Responds to JDD’s letter [3845].

Discusses his own poor health.

"Man is our great subject at present."

Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] sold 4000 copies on day of sale.

"The fossil bird [Archaeopteryx] … is a grand case for me." Wishes a skeleton could be found in the "so-called red sandstone foot-step beds".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1961

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Mary Helen Dawes
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/325, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3906

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
7 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 81
Summary:

Thanks for parcel of shoots with several interesting cases of "bud-variation".

Asks for information about roses.

Strange that great changes in peaches are less rare than slight ones and no case seems recorded of new apples or pears or apricots by "bud-variation". "How ignorant we are!"

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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