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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
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Thanks for HR’s valuable remarks about Expression, and returns HRs copy, signed.
Discusses some of HR’s anecdotes about children sucking their tongues.
Admits that the youth who trembled so that he could not reload his gun after killing his first snipe was himself, when a school-boy.
Pleased that JC-B will review Expression.
Fears he will not be able to improve the book with JC-B’s "wonderfully curious" photographs because Murray printed such a large edition.
Would be glad to have JC-B’s notes on inheritance – "a most important subject".
Distressed by the poor health of GHD and Horace. Asks them to come home.
Much obliged for seeds. Will expose seeds to chemical vapours.
Comments on JTM’s spider experiments.
Astonished by Agassiz’s argument; has sent AG’s memorandum to Nature [see 8786].
Is working on cross- and self-fertilising plants and has temporarily stopped work on Drosera.
Recounts instances suggesting that animals have a sense of direction.
Is glad and proud to honour the memory of Adam Sedgwick [d. 1873].
Sorry that his health prevents him attending a meeting to honour Adam Sedgwick.
CD has discovered correspondent intends to present a petition to the House of Commons on which CD’s is the sole signature. Asks that his name be erased unless other signatures are added.
Does not understand TM’s views on sex and vitality.
Agrees no real "essences" in genera, only broken groups of species.
Thanks WP for his accounts of sagacity of dogs. "I can believe almost anything about them."
Responds to AN’s observations on sense of smell in cats and dogs.
Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.
Thanks RM for note on ocelli.
Thanks for Indian [Medical] Gazette. Comments on article.
Reports that he has not received JSBS’s book on histology and physiology [Sanderson ed., Handbook for the physiological laboratory (1873)], which Edward Emmanuel Klein told CD’s son was to be sent. He asks for information so that he may thank Dr Klein. [Klein and Michael Foster were co-authors with JSBS.]
He has returned the Gazette to Dr T. L. Brunton. [See 8825.]
Advertising a testimonial for James Murie.
Asks about woodblocks of illustrations for Climbing plants [1875].
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