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DCP-LETT-11331

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
25 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 147: 269
Summary:

Thanks WP for election [as honorary member of the Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gessellschaft zu Jena].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11332

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 125
Summary:

Returns Kosmos.

Thanks CD for permission to use Fritz Müller’s last letter, which contains new observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11334

From:
William Edward Hart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 109
Summary:

Offers observations on pollination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11336

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 65
Summary:

Has been reading Samuel Haughton on geological time ["Notes on physical geology, no. III", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 534–46]. It is utter rubbish. Asks whether CD thinks GHD should write a critical note on the subject [see Nature 17 (1878): 509–10].

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DCP-LETT-11337

From:
John Evans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 163: 37
Summary:

Asks for subscription for A. H. Everett’s cave explorations in Borneo.

Is sure CD is pleased with Albert Gaudry’s new book [Les enchaînements du monde animal dans les temps géologiques (1878)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11338

From:
James Bradley Thayer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 88
Summary:

Is using CD’s correspondence with Chauncey Wright in his book on CW [Letters of Chauncey Wright (1878)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11342

From:
Carl (Charles) Kraus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31?] Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 169: 102
Summary:

Sends birthday greetings and respects.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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