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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
21 September [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 116
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.
Thanks him for plant specimens.
Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.
Inquires about a rumour that CD or Francis Darwin is preparing a new book on the "Power of inheritance".
Tells CD of his new periodical: Zoologische Anzeiger.
Cannot explain the peculiarities of the blood corpuscles of the Camelidae; maybe similarity between camels and ostriches arises from adaptation rather than common ancestry.