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DCP-LETT-1739

From:
John Cattell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1855
Source of text:
DAR 161: 127
Summary:

Gives names of German dealers who provide seed of superior quality.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2052

From:
Alfred Christy
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
11 Feb 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 219
Summary:

Sends information on the speed at which his pigeons fly various distances.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1309

From:
Abraham Clapham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1850
Source of text:
DAR 161: 150
Summary:

Results of crosses in Phlox.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2165

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 161: 192
Summary:

Responds to CD’s article on kidney beans [Collected papers 1: 275–7]. Sends beans as evidence of crossing.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2171

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 161: 193
Summary:

More on kidney bean crosses.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2326

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 194
Summary:

Cannot explain impurity of his alleged pure lines.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2336

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 195
Summary:

Sends more bean seeds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2340

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 196
Summary:

Answers CD’s queries about seed lot he has just sent.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2346

From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1858
Source of text:
DAR 161: 197
Summary:

Further answers on his seed lot.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2071

From:
Edwards Crisp
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 221
Summary:

Reports on wheat in the stomach of fish he caught.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1756

From:
John Rice Crowe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1855
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 222
Summary:

Forwards two specimens of beans found on north coast of Norway.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1819

From:
Charles Crump
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
[before 8 Jan 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A114–A116
Summary:

Reports upon a breed of wild cattle found in southern India. The herd is reputedly descended from a wild, red bull that mated with tame cows.

[This memorandum was forwarded to CD enclosed with 1817.]

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DCP-LETT-1380A

From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1850]
Source of text:
Living Cirripedia (1851): 15 n.
Summary:

Gives his opinion that the larval antennae in Lepas correspond with the inferior antennae, the superior not present, as in most Daphnidae. [See 1381.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1544

From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Dec 1855]
Source of text:
DAR (CD library – Dana, J. D. 1853)
Summary:

Responds to CD’s criticism of his use of word "Kingdom" in discussing geographical distribution of Crustacea.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1951

From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 269 (Letters), DAR 162: 38
Summary:

Responds to CD’s query about the blind fauna of Mammoth Cave.

Gives information from L. Agassiz. Distribution of Crustacea, especially along southern coastlines.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2016

From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 378
Summary:

Agassiz has informed him that the mice and rats of Mammoth Cave are American in type.

Alludes to CD’s doubt of the principle that "progress of life on the globe is parallel with the development in different tribes". Outlines his own ideas on the "unfolding of the type-idea" and its "parallelism with the law of development in the embryo".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2083

From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1857
Source of text:
DAR 162: 39
Summary:

In reply to CD’s query [see 2072], JDD describes what little is known about the crustacea of the Antarctic and southern lands.

Knows of no species of the cold temperate south identical with those of the cold temperate north.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1988

From:
William Freeman Daniell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 270, 271
Summary:

Believes he can give CD information on Mammalia of St Thomas [São Tomé, Gulf of Guinea]. Quotes from a Portuguese history of the islands on unique species of monkeys and civet cats found there.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13799F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1850–4?]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (17 November 1995)
Summary:

Two letters have arrived for WED.

Joseph has had two teeth out.

Contributor:
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