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From:
Edmund Langton; Charles Langton
To:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:
[after 9 Nov 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A95
Summary:

Some observations by EL on moths visiting flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 50
Summary:

Thanks CD for comments [on Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts].

Comments on Goethe and Kant as early evolutionists.

Describes birth of his son. Mentions child’s "atavisms".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edmund Langton
To:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:
9 Nov [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A93–4
Summary:

Observations on a Sphinx moth; attraction of dark spots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 18
Summary:

Asks permission to dedicate to CD his book on the fossil animals and geology of Attica [Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique (1862–7)]. CD will find much in it relating to the "filiation" of species, genera, and families.

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