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DCP-LETT-2731

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
21 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Is pleased GHKT goes a little way with him.

Has rectified in foreign editions of Origin his omission of an explanation of the failure of many forms to progress;

also has discussion of beauty in MS. Does GHKT really believe Diatomaceae, for instance, were created beautiful so that man, millions of generations later, should admire them through a microscope? CD attributes most of these structures to unknown laws of growth; useful structures are accounted for by natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2879

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Hardy
Date:
27 July [1860]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks CH for correction of blunder in Origin about hive-bees sucking clover: "a greater kindness than a new fact".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3886

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Alfred Barnes
Date:
10 November 1860
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4091

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Dulau
Date:
5 November 1861
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4179

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Park
Date:
12 May 1862
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4192

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Harriet Susan Miller
Date:
10 June 1862
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4200

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Ernst Becker
Date:
16 July 1862
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3783

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
27 [Oct 1862]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Hopes to be well enough on Friday to see JL.

Several of the family have had influenza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4282

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Cooke
Date:
1 January 1863
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4291

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Carter Blake
Date:
21 January 1863
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4301

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Hyde Hills
Date:
7 February 1863
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-5436

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Sends a sentence, quoting JP, on inherited peculiarities in eye-brows. Asks whether he may use it in his chapter on inheritance [Variation, ch. 12].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4313

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Locock
Date:
17 March 1863
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4442

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Arthur Phillips
Date:
8 April 1864
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Thanks GB for proposing him for Copley Medal; suspects he is responsible for the praise in Sabine’s "splendid eulogy" on his work. Has, however, written to Sabine to say he would have liked a little more said about the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4535

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Henry Pepper
Date:
11 March 1865
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4544

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frederick Gye
Date:
8 April 1865
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4549

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frederick Gye
Date:
11 May 1865
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-5197

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
24 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Family news. Describes [final] illness of Susan Darwin [d. 3 Oct 1866]. CD’s health better.

Making rapid progress on Variation.

Has heard of hybrids between moths mentioned by WDF.

Work on [4th] edition of Origin has delayed Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5934B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert McLachlan
Date:
25 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology)
Summary:

Is obliged for the facts about the hybrids [see 5910], which permit him to reject the view of B. D. Walsh (and H. W. Bates?) that organs play an important part in keeping incipient species distinct.

He has asked John Murray to send RM a copy of Variation.

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