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DCP-LETT-12881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
2 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Elizabeth Margaret Elliott Lucas (private collection)
Summary:

Hensleigh Wedgwood has told CD that land JBI had inquired about will be sold at auction with the house [Trowmer [Tromer!?] Lodge].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12882

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 164
Summary:

Gives instructions to WED about looking for earthworm activity at Brading.

Mentions James Geikie’s excellent book [Prehistoric Europe (1881)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12883

From:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 72
Summary:

CD’s comment that certain instincts originate as variations of the brain, rather than as habits, is supported by Brown-Séquard’s and C. F. O. Westphal’s work on epileptiform movements.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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