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DCP-LETT-12395

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 96
Summary:

Concerning subscriptions raised for Torbitt’s experiments on potato disease.

Comments on CD’s latest book [Movement in plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12968

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On land migration of plants. The case in Nature is striking but CD doubts that seeds of plants could be blown from mountains of Abyssinia to mountains of Madagascar.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12969

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 92: B61; DAR 221.2: 27
Summary:

Encloses reply to Butler [Kosmos 8 (1881): 321–2]. Has also written a reply intended for English reader. Will have it translated for Popular Science Review if CD thinks suitable.

Report of Jäger accident was an error.

Kosmos has been purchased by Eduard Koch in Stuttgart and will continue as in the past.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1478

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 January 1881
Source of text:
  • Linnean Society of London: MS 140a-23
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 123-124
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/278
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 January 1881
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 299-301
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 312-313]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 233]
Summary:

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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