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DCP-LETT-13495

From:
William Parker Snow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 214
Summary:

Is planning a revised edition of his Cruise in Tierra del Fuego [1857], and finds his opinions on the natives the reverse of CD’s.

Hopes he may call some time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13496

From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 346
Summary:

Thanks CD for his offer of assistance to David Ferrier.

Discusses CD’s earthworm book.

Tonsils in man as rudimentary organs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13497

From:
Frederick Capes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 44
Summary:

Reports extract of spurge [Euphorbia] killing earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13497F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 96)
Summary:

Financial matters; executing EAD’s will; pleased to hear news about Prof. Challis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13498

From:
George King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 169: 24
Summary:

Thanks for Earthworms.

Glad CD liked the Dischidia drawing. GK wishes he could see it in the wild to study its habits and those of the insects that visit it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13499

From:
William Carmichael McIntosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 110
Summary:

Asks for a testimonial for the Chair of Natural History at Edinburgh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13500

From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 181/39)
Summary:

The statues on which the egg-cases were found were perfectly clean and had never been painted.

Reports on fossilised leaf-prints he has found on the island. Found no seeds or land shells at the site.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Carmichael McIntosh
Date:
[after 21 Nov 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 110v
Summary:

Must refuse WCM’s request to revise E. Ray Lankester's testimonial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13501F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
George King
Date:
[after 21 Nov 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 113b
Summary:

CD asks him to say that the beautiful specimens of Dischidia arrived safely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-11-21

From:
Théodore Caruel
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 November 1881
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller 1871-81, f. 338
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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