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DCP-LETT-4000

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

Received JDD’s book [Manual of geology (1862)]

and pamphlet on man ["On the higher subdivisions in the classification of mammals", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 65–71].

Fully admits JDD’s objections are valid. But is convinced of the general truth of his own views (with much incidental error), because they embrace so many phenomena and explain them.

Discusses some mistakes Owen has made;

Falconer’s disagreement with Owen ["On the mammalian genus Plagiaulax", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel455

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.81
Summary:

Is JH interested in seeing G. F. J. A. Auwers's catalogue of JH's and William Herschel's nebulae?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7657

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.11; Reel 10
Summary:

Did JH receive G. F. J. A. von Auwers's catalog of JH's and William Herschel's nebulae?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1412

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.50
Summary:

Asks JH to comment on the scientific merit of a large number of plates on solar spots sent to R.S.L. by Richard Carrington.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4001

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 297
Summary:

Has not answered CD’s former letters. Has been ill. Will look up fish business as soon as he is square again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4002

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 36
Summary:

Dining arrangements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4052

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 41 (EH 88206024)
Summary:

Having trouble understanding laws of phyllotaxy in order to grasp Hugh Falconer’s objections.

L. C. Treviranus on Primula [see 3980] misses the "prettiness" of the adaptations.

John Scott says P. scotica is never dimorphic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4003

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
20 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B20–1
Summary:

Thanks JS for the very large Acropera capsule. CD has perhaps made a blunder about the sex of Acropera.

JS was right that successive homomorphic generations of Primula breed true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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