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DCP-LETT-8135F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1872 or later?]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8051)
Summary:

Queries about the pitch of children’s crying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8429

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 July [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

On ARW’s "crushing" review [Nature 6 (1872): 237–9] of C. R. Bree’s An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of Mr Darwin.

Comments on other reviews and exchanges.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8488

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Detailed response to reading of Bastian’s Beginnings of life [1872]. On the whole, it seems probable to CD that spontaneous generation is true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[2 Sept 1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Huxley’s report of Bastian’s having watched the development of the scale of Sphagnum. The importance of studies of possible causes of heterogenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8566

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Remarks about an enclosed specimen,

and extract of letter from W. A. L. Marshall [8560].

ARW’s good review of J. C. Houzeau de Lehaie [Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux, in Nature 6 (1872): 469–71].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8581A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 4481/3)
Summary:

Requests the address of F. F. Geach so that he may send him his book [Expression].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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