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From Edward Cresy   9 June 1865

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Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.

Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].

Author:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 June 1865
Classmark:  DAR 161: 244
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4856

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  • Emma Darwin and Henrietta Emma Darwin . George Howard Darwin was an undergraduate at Cambridge. He matriculated at Trinity College in October 1864 ( Alum. Cantab. ). William Carpmael was a civil engineer who worked with Cresy and whose son, Ernest, was an undergraduate at Cambridge at this time. Ernest matriculated at St John’s College in October 1863 ( …

To J. D. Hooker   1 June [1865]

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Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.

Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  1 June [1865]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 269, 269b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4846

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  • Darwin went to London on 25 April 1865 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Antirrhinum majus , the common snapdragon, usually bears irregular flowers, with five sepals, stamens, and petals. CD described the peloric Antirrhinum in Variation 2: 59–60. CD’s notes on the results of this artificial self-pollination, dated 20 May 1865, are in DAR 51: A23; he described the experiment in Variation 2: 70. CD’s notes on his experiments in 1863, …