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DCP-LETT-9318

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 8b (EH 88205933)
Summary:

The land CD wants to buy probably belongs to his marriage-settlement and would thus be difficult to sell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9319

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 29
Summary:

Asks CD to allow his name to be put on a committee to establish a Scientific Societies Club for the fellows of the six societies that will have rooms in Burlington House.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9320

From:
Eugène Desmarest
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 172
Summary:

CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
18 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 249: 120
Summary:

Thanks for HHHvZ’s translation of Expression. CD will have HHHvZ’s notes translated by one of his sons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9322

From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 47–8, DAR 160: 340
Summary:

Reports negative results of his experiments on digestion of chlorophyll by Drosera and by animals. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 126.]

Sends references for chondrin.

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DCP-LETT-9323

From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 184: 17
Summary:

CD’s son is considering translating into English HHHvZ’s notes in Dutch edition of Expression; HHHvZ feels his notes to Descent would be of more interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9337

From:
Praskov’ja Fëdorovna Perfil’eva (Pauline Perfilieff)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 174: 36
Summary:

Asks for CD’s photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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