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From Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther to S. P. Woodward   14 June 1861

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Discusses transport of fish to Lake Constance by flooding.

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:  14 June 1861
Classmark:  DAR 205.2: 235
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3605

From S. P. Woodward   14 February 1863

Summary

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

From S. P. Woodward   5 June 1863

Summary

Has been writing a notice of H. W. Bates’s "capital book" [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].

P. M. Duncan’s coral paper [J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 29 (1863): 406–58] strengthens SPW’s belief in the general diffusion of marine forms westward in the course of time.

Author:  Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 June 1863
Classmark:  DAR 181: 155
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4204

To S. P. Woodward   29 [September 1843]

Summary

Says he will call tomorrow to examine indicated specimens and books at Geological Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:  29 [Sept 1843]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 42579: 228–9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-697

To S. P. Woodward   [14 January 1843]

Summary

Asks SPW to have obsidian specimens and book [Dieudonné de Gratet de Dolomieu, Voyage aux îles de Lipari (1783)] ready when he comes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Samuel Pickworth Woodward; Geological Society of London
Date:  [14 Jan 1843]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-652
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