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DCP-LETT-13331

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
Date:
12 Sept 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0022)
Summary:

Hooker would be very glad to see the mountain plants Fd’AF has collected.

Hooker says huge cypress trunks have been found buried in the ground [in the Azores]; the site needs to be described and investigated. CD suggests collecting earth from same bed to see whether any seeds have remained viable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13332

From:
John Harmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 104
Summary:

Observed a beetle carrying a long worm.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13333

From:
George Henry Haydon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 124
Summary:

Sending some Hudson’s Bay mosquitoes because of a letter of CD’s quoted in Evening Standard, 5 Sept 1881.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13348

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 215)
Summary:

Hopes Anthony Rich will keep to his intention of leaving his fortune to CD, despite CD’s increased wealth.

His BAAS address at York in Nature ["The rise and progress of palaeontology" 24 (1881): 452–5].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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