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From:
Brodie, Jessie
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
22 November 1871
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Sends back proofs. Praises CD for calm treatment of Mivart. Looks at duck’s mouth. Asks whether CD has seen Snow’s article in the Spectator.
Will send FD’s work [Studi sopra un lignaggio anemofilo delle composte (1871)] to Nature for review.
CD’s health has been poor all summer – he doubts that he will ever "have the strength to publish on Variability under a state of Nature".
Hopes to publish on cross- and self-fertilisation next summer.
Encloses his photo and asks for FD’s.
Effect of turf covering on the disintegration of rocks. Weathering of rock; relative importance of different agents with different rocks.