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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Georg Moritz (Otto) Busch
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (bMs 7)
Summary:

Thanks OB for his work on Schopenhauer [Arthur Schopenhauer. Beitrag zu einer Dogmatik der Religionslosen (1877)]

and for his remarks on bees and clover. When CD spoke, last spring, of the few seeds produced by red clover, he supposed it was due to rarity of humble-bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Pierre Louis Eugène (Eugène) Dupuy
Date:
21 July 1878
Source of text:
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3 (4))
Summary:

Considers Brown-Séquard’s discovery of inheritance of injury to nerves most important hereditary observation ever. Extremely interested in correspondent’s confirmation. Impressed that in reported cases of inherited injury suppuration tends to follow the injury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
Date:
30 July [1852]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3 (1))
Summary:

Declines invitation to Chevening [Lord Stanhope’s residence].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
8 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.2)
Summary:

Asks HCW’s help with his experiments on Lythrum salicaria, for which he needs flowers of the rare Lythrum hyssopifolia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3(2))
Summary:

Thanks HHHvZ for a memoir

and answers some queries;

mentions some corrections for his Dutch translation of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Bartlett
Date:
15 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3(3))
Summary:

Asks for information on feeding habits of Egyptian goose.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project