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DCP-LETT-8296

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
21 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Encourages FG to carry out investigation [of spiritualism]. However, his own health is too uncertain to accept Daniel Dunglas Home’s offer. Discusses possibility of reproducing Crookes’s apparatus for sale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8297

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Apr 1872
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 9)
Summary:

[An autograph.] "With Mr Darwin’s compliments."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8297F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
[11 or 21] Apr 1872
Source of text:
Joseph M. Maddalena (dealer) (Catalog 16: Spring 1992)
Summary:

Sends details of Alexander Dickson’s paper ‘On some abnormal cones of Pinus Pinaster’ (Dickson 1871).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8299

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Edwards
Date:
23 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 38))
Summary:

Thanks for part nine of WHE’s [Butterflies of North America (1868–72)].

Comments on trimorphism in Papilio ajax.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8299F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Rifle Volunteer Corps
Date:
23 Apr 1872
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (22 November 2011, lot 223)
Summary:

Regrets that his health will prevent his attending concerts in aid of the Rifle Corps Fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8302

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
29 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 414
Summary:

Expresses gratitude on election to Royal Netherlands Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
30 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 329
Summary:

Not surprised incipient disease in female would make her unattractive to male.

Sorry JJW’s official duties are so heavy.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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