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DCP-LETT-4695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Summary:

Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".

The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6332A

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1868
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Charles Valentine Riley papers, Scrapbook no. 9, p. 61); DAR 47: 180; DAR 193: 54; Field Museum (pasted into C. V. Riley’s personal copy of his own 1st Annual Report of the Missouri State Entomologist)
Summary:

On the delay in receiving CD’s new book [Variation] and his delight in a borrowed copy.

Encloses a Prospectus on his new periodical "American Entomologist" devoted to economic entomology.

Comments on the talents of his young partner, C. V. Riley.

Requests photographs for Riley of CD and Westwood.

Dr J. L. Le Conte has not yet received the request that he furnish CD with information about the stridulatory organs of Coleoptera.

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