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DCP-LETT-1969

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 178
Summary:

Agrees with JDH that Cytisus report [presumably of a large change] not sound. CD pleased because, if true, species would change too quickly.

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DCP-LETT-1970

From:
William Freeman Daniell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct – 7 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 223
Summary:

Responds to CD’s queries on Sierra Leone: fertility of European animals introduced to W. Africa, relationship of health and complexion of Europeans, etc.

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DCP-LETT-1970A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
8 Oct [1856?]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 111
Summary:

The bearer has called for the books. Requests volumes of Isis for 1828 and 1829.

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DCP-LETT-1971

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 180
Summary:

CD coming to London.

Read JDH’s review [Hooker’s Kew J. Bot. 8 (1856): 54–64 et seq.] of Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique raisonnée [1855] long ago.

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DCP-LETT-1965

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 Oct 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 50: E9
Summary:

Note accompanying MS of part of chapter 11 ["Geographical distribution"] of Natural selection [1975].

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DCP-LETT-1977

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 Oct 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 179
Summary:

CD sorry he had to leave the Hookers abruptly to catch his train.

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DCP-LETT-1979

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
27 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 14 (EH 88206463)
Summary:

Comments on JL’s paper on Daphnia, ["An account of methods of reproduction in Daphnia and of the structure of the ephippium", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100].

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