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DCP-LETT-13441

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 172: 53
Summary:

Thanks CD for the reference to Audubon’s story. T. M. Brewer is to be trusted, but his account does not suggest why the bird always moved northward.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13441A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 419–20
Summary:

Thanks CD for letter of 10 September [13326]

and for copy of Nature.

Reports on Lagerstroemia experiments.

Has been making observations on what happens to plants following heavy rain. Sends CD three specimens to show how dirt attaches to the undersides of leaves.

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