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From J. D. Hooker [2 April 1864]
Summary
JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.
John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 198–200, 203; DAR 104: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4445 |
From Alfred Newton 2 April 1864
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Marvels that seeds from the lump of clay on the partridge’s foot have germinated. At Zoological Society [J. E.?] Gray ridiculed him. Now Frank Buckland would like to see the specimen.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4446 |
Author
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
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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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- … in a different part of the text, in Origin 4th ed., p. 402. 39. p. 367. The original …
