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DCP-LETT-12962

From:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 16
Summary:

Arrived in Brazil three months ago. Studying insects and plants, but work suffers from lack of scientific literature.

Fritz Müller has written to him to observe relations between ants and plants.

Writing popular articles about evolution for German newspaper in Brazil.

Sends paper from Kosmos.

Expects to spend several years in Brazil.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13021

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Breitenbach
Date:
20 [June] 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 145
Summary:

Glad WB has arrived in Brazil. Suggests study of insects and study of fertilisation in Melastomataceae. Want of books is not a serious evil.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13211

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 June [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 516–17
Summary:

Cheered by JDH’s friendly words.

Wishes he could help JDH with geographical distribution, but the subject has gone out of his mind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000954

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 June 1881
Source of text:
MM/15/8, Royal Society
Summary:

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Royal Society
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