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To S. P. Woodward   9 [July 1860]

Summary

Regrets he cannot answer SPW’s questions.

Discusses antiquity of subaerial volcanoes.

Disagrees "entirely & absolutely" with L. von Buch’s "elevation-crater-theory".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:  9 [July 1860]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2630

To J. O. Westwood   9 July [1860]

Summary

Thanks JOW for the bees. The pollen-masses that were attached to one of them have unaccountably been lost.

Does not know of a paper by Charles Morren on orchids and insects, and would be glad to have the reference [see 3267, and Orchids, p. 270 n.].

Has spent so much money recently he is unwilling to subscribe for the purchase of T. V. Wollaston’s collection for the [Oxford] Museum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Obadiah Westwood
Date:  9 July [1860]
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2862

From Hugh Falconer   9 July [1860]

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Hyaena remains show how recently Sicily was joined to Africa.

Reports on the Oxford meeting of BAAS.

Author:  Hugh Falconer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 July [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 164.1: 5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2863
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