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To W. B. Tegetmeier   23 April [1868]

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Likes WBT’s review [of Variation] in the Field [31 (1868): 309, 350].

Awaits remarks on coloured pigeons and proportion of sexes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  23 Apr [1868]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6141

From Gerolamo Boccardo   23 April 1868

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Thanks CD for gift of Variation.

GB sent copies of his Fisica del globo [1868] to Lyell and the presidents of British scientific societies but has received no acknowledgment; asks CD to check that they received the work. Could CD arrange for a notice of the book to appear in England?

Author:  Gerolamo Boccardo
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Apr 1868
Classmark:  DAR 160: 233
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6142
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4.23 Gegeef, 'Battle Field of Science'

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< Back to Introduction Another satirical print by ‘Gegeëf’, The Battle Field of Science and the Churches, is signed and dated 30 November 1873. It survives as a foldout plate in a twopenny journal, The Gauntlet, which, like Our National Church and…

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  • … < Back to Introduction Another satirical print by ‘Gegeëf’, The Battle Field of …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … to this island and to the Canaries.    Page 423, par. 2, line 5, insert after ‘mammals.’: …
  • … appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 454. 50.  p. 423. This substitution also occurs in Origin …

People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album

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Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…

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  • … (ADB). Vol. 53. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1907. p. 423.   Toula, Franz …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • … sheep of Provence; quoted by Young in French Tour. p. 423 [Young 1792].— (See about instincts, as in …
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