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From Henry Bence Jones   2 August 1870

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CD has complained of pins and needles keeping him from working on his book [Descent]. If he could spend ten days with HBJ, he would be well and fit.

Author:  Henry Bence Jones
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Aug 1870
Classmark:  DAR 168: 79
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7293

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  • B.  Jones to Emma Darwin, 1 October 1867 , and n.  5). CD sent the manuscript of Descent to the printers in August 1870 ( letter to John Murray, …

From S. P. Woodward   14 February 1863

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Points out some errata in the Origin.

Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.

Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.

Author:  Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 181: 154
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3984

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  • 1867–1925. Variation : The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. Woodward, Horace B. …

From W. B. Tegetmeier   [before 15 February 1868]

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Agrees to help determine the sex ratios in domestic animals.

Author:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 15 Feb 1868]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 79
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5878

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  • 1867 in Descent 1: 303. CD had written to Francis Trevelyan Buckland regarding the proportion of the sexes in fish. See letter to W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 11 February [1868] , and letter to F.  T.  Buckland, 12 February [1868] . The letter appeared in the Field for 22 February 1868, p.  144. Tegetmeier refers to Variation and to CD’ s publisher, John Murray . …
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