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DCP-LETT-13697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 19 (EH 88205917)
Summary:

Has rarely read anything more interesting than WO’s introduction to his Aristotle translation. Had no notion what a wonderful man Aristotle was. Linnaeus and Cuvier were mere schoolboys compared to him. His ignorance on some points, as on muscles and the means of movement, is curious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13697F

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237)
Summary:

Returns certificate he has signed with pleasure.

Emma Darwin will be interested to hear that Charles Bradlaugh was expelled from Parliament.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Princeton University Library (Scheide Autograph Collection 68.5: 11); DAR 28.2: A1a–A1b
Summary:

Instructs engraver on illustrations for his paper ["The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants", Collected papers 2: 236–56].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13699

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Johnson
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 5
Summary:

Slab with fossil annelid tracks safely arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13700

From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 296
Summary:

Describes his collections and research on Brazilian insects, especially Orthoptera. Comments on insect phylogeny.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13701

From:
John Collier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 161: 209
Summary:

Thanks CD for note on his book on the sense of beauty [A primer of art (1882)].

Views of Huxley and Spencer on consciousness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001252

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
22 February 1882
Source of text:
MM/17/120, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001694

From:
John William Dawson
To:
Walter White
Date:
22 February 1882
Source of text:
MM/22/33, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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