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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 160: 29
Summary:

Thanks for letter, which made up for difficulty of his speech [at BAAS meeting, Swansea].

Has met Horace Darwin and wife;

climbed Matterhorn.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Nov 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 27
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Movement in plants; CD’s discovery of a "nervous system without nerves" will have important bearing on origins of animal nervous system.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 28
Summary:

Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 30
Summary:

Thanks for suggesting that a spare copy of his book [Treatise on comparative embryology (1880–1)] be sent to Fritz Müller.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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