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DCP-LETT-12916

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Vöchting
Date:
16 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 148: 197
Summary:

Comments on HV’s Über Organbildung im Pflanzenreich: über Wachstumsursachen und Lebenseinheiten [pt 1, 1878].

Mentions paper by his son [Francis Darwin, "The theory of the growth of cuttings, illustrated by observations on the bramble, Rubus fruticosus", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 18 (1881): 406–19].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12917

From:
Otto Hahn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 83
Summary:

Sends his book [Die Meteorite und ihre Organismen (1880)]. Claims to have discovered the beginning of life on earth, which confirms CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12918

From:
Walter Raleigh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Microfilm10682); DAR 202: 17
Summary:

Writes on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury to invite CD to a private conference organised in an attempt to reconcile science and religion. [Enclosed is a printed two-page memorial calling for such a conference.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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