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DCP-LETT-13468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Foster Barham Zincke
Date:
7 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Would like to cite the case of the celt in a new printing of Earthworms. Asks for details.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13469

From:
Charles James Breese
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 289
Summary:

Sends CD an abstract of his 1871 paper on the earthworm, and requests information on the phenomenon of luminosity.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13470

From:
Sarah Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 43
Summary:

Can CD explain why in a mollusc (Bulimus decollatus) immature forms are always broken at the apex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13471

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
7 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
Nature , 17 November 1881, p. 51
Summary:

Summarises letter of William Nation [13350]. The facts given strongly support the conclusion that there is some close connection between the parasitic habits of birds that lay their eggs in others’ nests and the fact of their laying eggs at "considerable intervals of time".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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