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DCP-LETT-12899

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 351)
Summary:

Thinks Wallace memorial should not be presented to Lord Aberdare, nor to Owen, for signature, but will follow THH’s wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12901

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Mellard Reade
Date:
9 Dec 1880
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.7)
Summary:

Comments on TMR’s "Oceanic islands" [Geol. Mag. 8 (1881): 75–7]. Fact that oceanic islands are all volcanic argues for view that no continent ever occupied the oceans. Chalk seemed best evidence of ocean having existed where continent now stands. CD leans to view that continents have occupied present positions since Cambrian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12902

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
9 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 101
Summary:

The Kovalevskys have been to lunch.

Madame Kovalevsky is greatly interested in GHD’s papers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 December 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College Archives, London: Huxley Collection, 1D/5.351
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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