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DCP-LETT-6843

From:
Charles Voysey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 180: 16
Summary:

Acclimatisation of potatoes by selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6844

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dudley Campbell
Date:
29 July [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.5509:92)
Summary:

Sends cheque for £5 as subscription to Westminster Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6845

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Merle Norman
Date:
29 July [1869]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Summary:

Asks whether AMN has any specimens of British calcareous sponges that CD could forward to Haeckel, who is studying them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6846

From:
Louis Rérolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 131
Summary:

Progressing with translation of new footnotes for Orchids. Asks for help with a few words.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6847

From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: A72–3
Summary:

Mating practice of Carcinus maenas [see Descent 1: 331].

Difference in size in sexes of Crustacea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6847F

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1869
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 847)
Summary:

Reports on prehistoric finds from caves at Rhagatt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6857F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
14 July [1869]
Source of text:
Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (15 November 2009)
Summary:

Knows Dawkins interested in cave animals; has just heard from a Lloyd of Rhaggatt that a fissure has opened full of bones and teeth. Will send some.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7044

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Charlotte Lloyd
Date:
[24 July 1869]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 383)
Summary:

Forwards letter from W. B. Dawkins. The bones, though not themselves interesting, may indicate the work of prehistoric man.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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