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DCP-LETT-11743F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
12 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (11 July 2017)
Summary:

JL’s sentence about glaciation will do excellently. Is glad JL thought about dimorphism of butterflies.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
12 Nov 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.601)
Summary:

Discusses GJR’s controversy with the Duke [of Argyll] concerning Roux’s book [Der Kampf der Theile im Organismus (1881)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13480

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
12 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: ff. 228–9)
Summary:

Progress of his and Frank Darwin’s work; "all natural science seems now to depend on section-cutting".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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