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To Yorkshire Philosophical Society   8 February [1868]

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CD appreciates the honour of being elected an Honorary Member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  T. S Noble
Date:  8 Feb [1868]
Classmark:  Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Council Minute Book, vol. 3, p. 619 (2 March 1868)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5839F

From Herbert Spencer   8 February 1868

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Thanks CD for copy of Variation.

Discusses Pangenesis and considers CD’s "gemmules" comparable to his own hypothetical "physiological units" ["On alleged ""spontaneous generation"", and on the hypothesis of physiological units", appendix in The principles of biology, vol. 1 (1864)].

Author:  Herbert Spencer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Feb 1868
Classmark:  DAR 177: 227
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5851

From Albany Hancock   8 February 1868

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On the colours of the nudibranch Mollusca. [See Descent 1: 326.]

Author:  Albany Hancock
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Feb 1868
Classmark:  DAR 82: A51–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5852