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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer

Date:

18 Jan 1881

Source of text:

Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/32)

Summary:

Asks THF to obtain sample of chalk immediately below vegetable mould at Abinger.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Alphonse de Candolle

To:

Charles Robert Darwin

Date:

18 Jan [1881]

Source of text:

DAR 161: 25

Summary:

Thanks for Movement in plants. Praises the terms CD introduces, but criticises CD’s use of the teleological word "purpose".

Outlines his efforts to study the inheritance of characters in his family. F. Galton overemphasises the inheritance of good qualities.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project