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DCP-LETT-13277

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 518–23
Summary:

Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.

Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".

Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.

Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13278

From:
August Dupré
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 162: 244
Summary:

AD’s son has inherited the same head malformation as one AD had received as a result of the pressure of his nurse’s arm while carrying him when a baby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13278A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Clowes & Sons
Date:
6 Aug [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 213: 13
Summary:

Asks the printers that the table of contents [for Earthworms] be done in the same fashion used in his other books. Requests another proof.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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