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DCP-LETT-3960

From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 356
Summary:

Invites CD to visit offices of the Field; editor wishes CD to place natural history inquiries there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3961

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:
1 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for information; will write about the fins.

His health is weak and he is "almost smothered" with facts and inquiries, so is trying to restrict the scope of his present work, on variation under domestication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7701

From:
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.8.13; Reel 10
Summary:

Is sending JH a list of 38 nebulae, their positions reduced to 1830, and described using the terms that JH uses. Comments on some of the difficulties in identifying the nebulae, and includes reference to other astronomer's work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3962

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
1 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987)
Summary:

Answers TR’s query about stomata.

CD will use "weeping trees" as an example of how inexplicable the laws of inheritance are, and asks for facts on character of seedlings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC253

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
-[2]-[1863]
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.88-89, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

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Contributor:
Hooker Project
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