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To James Dwight Dana 7 January [1863]
Summary
Responds to JDD’s letter [3845].
Discusses his own poor health.
"Man is our great subject at present."
Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] sold 4000 copies on day of sale.
"The fossil bird [Archaeopteryx] … is a grand case for me." Wishes a skeleton could be found in the "so-called red sandstone foot-step beds".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3905 |
To Thomas Rivers 7 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks for parcel of shoots with several interesting cases of "bud-variation".
Asks for information about roses.
Strange that great changes in peaches are less rare than slight ones and no case seems recorded of new apples or pears or apricots by "bud-variation". "How ignorant we are!"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3906 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
