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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
[after 1 Nov 1876]
Source of text:
Warner ed. 1896, 2 : 4391
Summary:

Offers to contribute £10 towards ERL’s expenses in prosecuting Henry Slade, the spiritualistic imposter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
9 July 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.565)
Summary:

Asks that authoress be thanked for poem. Enjoyed poetry in old days; now cannot read a line.

Delighted that ERL will find time for original investigations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
15 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 92
Summary:

CD much interested by ERL’s book [On comparative longevity (1870)]. Is pleased to find ERL refers to CD’s "despised child" Pangenesis, and is also pleased how thoroughly ERL appreciates Herbert Spencer, a philosopher perhaps equal to any that has lived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
22 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 30, LL 3: 138, 200
Summary:

Asks for photograph of pointed ear of ERL’s friend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin Ray Lankester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 39–40
Summary:

Has had Hinrich Nitsche’s pointed ear photographed. Nitsche also has photographed the ear of a foetal orang. [See Descent 1: 21–3.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
15 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 31
Summary:

Discusses error in CD’s calculation of natural increase of elephants.

Includes extract from Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project