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DCP-LETT-12881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
2 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Elizabeth Margaret Elliott Lucas (private collection)
Summary:

Hensleigh Wedgwood has told CD that land JBI had inquired about will be sold at auction with the house [Trowmer [Tromer!?] Lodge].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12882

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 164
Summary:

Gives instructions to WED about looking for earthworm activity at Brading.

Mentions James Geikie’s excellent book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12883

From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 72
Summary:

CD’s comment that certain instincts originate as variations of the brain, rather than as habits, is supported by Brown-Séquard’s and C. F. O. Westphal’s work on epileptiform movements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-80-12-02

From:
the Ostschweizerische geographisch-commercielle Gesellschaft
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 December 1880
Source of text:
MS 8261, La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP2040

From:
[unknown person]
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 December 1880
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 f. 115
Summary:

Island Life.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4983

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Croll
Date:
2 December 1880
Source of text:
Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc . London: E. Stanford. [p. 361]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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