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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Duncan Hague
Date:
20 Feb 1872
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for a quarto work on the mining industry. CD’s sons much obliged for kindness in California.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Charles Wallich
Date:
24 Feb [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); DAR 53.1: C50
Summary:

Asks for the negative and permission to publish photo of smiling girl. [Expression, p. 202, plate III, fig. 2.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
29 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s description of a séance at the house of William Crookes.

Will use FG’s words about [H. M. Butler’s] hereditary habit [in Expression, p. 33 n. 8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
21 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Encourages FG to carry out investigation [of spiritualism]. However, his own health is too uncertain to accept Daniel Dunglas Home’s offer. Discusses possibility of reproducing Crookes’s apparatus for sale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
17 Sept [1872?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders sulphuric ether, nitric ether, chloroform, and prussic acid [for Drosera experiments? See Insectivorous plants, pp. 209, 219].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kinahan; Maxwell Henry Close
Date:
29 Oct 1872
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Much obliged for GHK and MHC’s General glaciation [of Iar-Connaught (1872)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 Dec [1872?]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Will be in London for a week. Invites ARW to lunch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project