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From M. T. Masters 14 April 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for specimens which show that an abnormality in one genus is normal in another, which bears on CD’s views on descent.
| Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4092 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 April 1863
Summary
The ovule of Primula is amphitropous or what J. Georg Agardh calls apotropo-amphitropous [see Theoria systematis plantarum (1858), tab. 24, fig. 5–6].
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4093 |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 April 1863
Summary
Difference in plumage of Ardeola, a species of heron, in summer and winter. [See Descent 2: 190.]
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 18–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094 |
From George Bentham [c. 14 April 1863]
Summary
Asks CD whether he knows of "anything worth looking at" that has appeared abroad on his theory of the origin of species.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 14 Apr 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4096 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
