From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 June 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 8
Summary:
Has discussed with E. E. Klein about the purchase of a Hartnack microscope from Paris.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 116–19
Summary:
Informs CD of the effects of certain salts and other chemicals on animals.
Comments on CD’s results with Drosera. Suggests some experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Charles Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 183
Summary:
Wonders whether CD has any idea how the cuckoo manages to match its eggs to those of its host; believes it possible that the diet of the nestling cuckoo, which varies with its host, may affect its behaviour and the colour of its eggs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project