To David Thomas Ansted 27 October [1860]
Summary
Comments on interpretation of natural selection in DTA’s Geological gossip [1860].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Thomas Ansted |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2966 |
From A. W. von Hofmann to Edward Cresy 27 October 1860
Summary
Is enclosing Alfred Swaine Taylor’s book On poisons (1848). Reports on his own experiment with the starch test in dissolving iodine in different measures of water.
| Author: | August Wilhelm von Hofmann |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2966A |
From Benjamin Silliman Jr 27 October 1860
Summary
On the suggestion of Jeffries Wyman, he writes about the rats that he captured in Mammoth Cave in 1850. They were indeed blind. Reginald Mantell studied them and learned that with long exposure to graduated light, they became somewhat sensitised. Sends copy of an abstract which he wrote as a letter to A. H. Guyot ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. Journal of Sci. and Arts 2d ser. 11 (1851)]. [See 3007.]
| Author: | Benjamin Silliman, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct 1860 |
| Classmark: | Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with Silliman 1851) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2966B |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hofmann, A. W. von | (1) |
| Silliman, Benjamin, Jr | (1) |
Addressee
| Ansted, D. T. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Ansted, D. T. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Hofmann, A. W. von | (1) |
| Silliman, Benjamin, Jr | (1) |
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