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From Hensleigh Wedgwood [13–19 March 1859]
Summary
HW has confirmed the report in the Times of a shower of fish (minnows and sticklebacks) that fell on the Wedgwood colliery.
| Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13–19 Mar 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 262 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13854 |
From T. H. Huxley [9–12 March 1859]
Summary
Serial homologies in the Mollusca. Gives instances of repetition of homological parts in Radiata.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9–12 Mar 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 288 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2427 |
From J. D. Hooker [9 March 1859]
Summary
Outlines the basic categories of phanerogams.
Places Gymnospermae in the dicotyledons.
Evaluates the variable utility of embryological characters in plant classification.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Mar 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 152–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2428 |
From John Lubbock 15 March 1859
Summary
Embryology of Diptera. Development of insects; metamorphosis. JL feels all insects go through metamorphosis but that in some of them, part takes place before birth.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2433 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
