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To Robert Caspary   21 February [1866]

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Requests copy of paper read at Amsterdam Horticultural Congress, on graft-hybrids like that of Cytisus adami [see 5018].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
Date:  21 Feb [1866]
Classmark:  Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5012

From J. D. Hooker   21 February 1866

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Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.

Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Feb 1866
Classmark:  DAR 102: 59, 62–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5013

From John Murray   21 February [1866]

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Informs CD third edition of Origin is exhausted. Proposes a new edition. Has CD any changes? Since demand is slowing up, proposes printing only 1250 copies and deferring payment of CD’s share until sales have repaid manufacturing costs.

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Feb [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 333
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5014

From Kent Church Penitentiary Society   [before 21 February 1866]

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Appeal for funds for paying of the Society’s debt, and for an annual subscription.

Author:  Kent Church Penitentiary Society
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 21 Feb 1866]
Classmark:  DAR 142: 92
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5481F
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2.21 Montford, relief at Christ's College

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< Back to Introduction An oval bronze plaque with a relief portrait of Darwin by Horace Montford is at Christ’s College, Cambridge, the college where Darwin had been an undergraduate. It is likely to have been based on one of the many photographs of…

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Chirk Castle, Wales

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A 'steady stupid old matron'

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  • … Darwin's former girlfriend writes of Shropshire friends, her illness and her baby daughter. …

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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  • … 1 to 216 —— vol 45— Whole vol. vol 47 p 221 to 424. —— 2 d . Series. vol 3. p …