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From:
Émile Alglave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 159: A35
Summary:

Has learned CD will soon publish a new work, in three parts: I. "Descent of man", II. "On sexual selection", and III. "Expression of the emotions"; would like to translate one part for inclusion in Revue des Cours [Littéraires et] Scientifiques, and at the same time translate and publish the complete work for France.

Contributor:
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From:
Carl Vogt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 180: 13
Summary:

Would like to translate Descent into German, if Carus is not doing so.

Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 and 29 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 172
Summary:

As CD is to be in London, AG will try to get to Queen Anne St to see him.

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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 59
Summary:

Observations on Passiflora.

Hildebrand on geraniums.

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From:
Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1869
Source of text:
DAR 169: 45
Summary:

Sends copy of C. J. Dub [Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s über die Entstehung der Organismen (1870)].

Asks about appearance of CD’s next book.

Comments on the Duke of Argyll’s Primeval man [1869].

New [4th] German edition of Origin to appear soon.

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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Oct 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 10
Summary:

Asks for some money for his fees.

Contributor:
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From:
Stephen Paul Engleheart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Oct 1869 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 19
Summary:

Blushing begins as early as the fifth year.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
14 Oct 1869
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 277)
Summary:

Delighted with THH’s review [in Academy (1869)] of Haeckel’s [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868],

but groans about THH’s view of rudimentary organs. Cites Origin and Variation.

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