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DCP-LETT-13711

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
28 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 335
Summary:

Comments on James Geikie’s ["Intercrossing of erratics", Scottish Naturalist 6 (1882): 193–200, 241–54]. Believes JG underrates importance of floating ice in explaining drift deposits.

Comments on origin of life and natural theology.

Recommends William Graham’s The creed of science [1881].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13711F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1882]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 114)
Summary:

Gives information about the Great Western Railway dividend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13658

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
4 Feb 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.615); DAR 28.2: B1a
Summary:

Discusses plate for use in article ["Action of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll-bodies", Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 19: 239–61].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
22 Feb 1882
Source of text:
Princeton University Library (Scheide Autograph Collection 68.5: 11); DAR 28.2: A1a–A1b
Summary:

Instructs engraver on illustrations for his paper ["The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants", Collected papers 2: 236–56].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13707

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36224)
Summary:

Asks further questions about shell attached to beetle’s leg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13657

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gertrude Susan Astley; Gertrude Susan Nicholson
Date:
[after 3 Feb 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 123v
Summary:

Testifies to F. W. Surman’s good character and honesty.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13693

From:
Ada Harriet Miser; Ada Harriet Kepley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 169: 7
Summary:

An experienced keeper of house plants assures CD that earthworms do not injure roots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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