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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Collier
Date:
16 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6513)
Summary:

Thanks JC for the gift of his book [A primer of art (1882)]. Wishes JC could explain why certain lines and figures give pleasure.

Comments on Huxley’s essays on Priestley and [animal] automatism [Science and culture and other essays (1881)].

JC’s portrait [of CD] is much admired.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:
16 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (16–23 May 2019, lot 8)
Summary:

Offering to send a copy of Kosmos containing a short review of her Life, letters and journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Giuseppe Merighi
Date:
16 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara (MS II:423)
Summary:

CD’s observations on the geology of S. Africa, which he considers of no value, were published in Volcanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project