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To Charles Lyell   22 August [1867]

Summary

Thanks CL for comments [on Variation].

Thinks Pangenesis would be important step in biology if admitted as probable.

Introduction to French edition [of Origin] has injured the book.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  22 Aug [1867]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.332)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5612

From J. T. Rothrock to Asa Gray   22 August 1867

Summary

The two names CD could not read are "Atnah" and "Espyox" [see 5478].

He and George Thurber would like CD’s autograph.

Author:  Joseph Trimble Rothrock
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  22 Aug 1867
Classmark:  DAR 176: 219
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5613

From William Boyd Dawkins   22 August 1867

Summary

On the breeding out of horns in Galloway cattle.

Has a finely graded series linking the dentition of the rhinoceros with that of the Palaeotherium of the Eocene.

Author:  William Boyd Dawkins
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Aug 1867
Classmark:  DAR 162: 117
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5614

To W. A. Knight   22 August [1867]

Summary

Will not attend the British Association meeting at Dundee.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Angus Knight
Date:  22 Aug [1867]
Classmark:  The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Knight Collection MA 8601)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5614F
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