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DCP-LETT-6994

From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 45
Summary:

Asks CD to write a letter sponsoring him for the Chair of Comparative Physiology at Paris. There are some who do not think his work on artificial production of monstrosities belongs in physiology.

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DCP-LETT-6995

From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: 27–9
Summary:

Thanks CD for his orchid paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56]. Comments briefly on orchids.

Discusses moths in which the wing underside is the most brightly coloured, and relates his observations on sexual selection by a moth, Syntomis.

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