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DCP-LETT-9252

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 Jan 1874
Source of text:
Staatsbibilothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 110–111)
Summary:

Is glad to hear of new German edition of Descent, but owing to his extensive revisions, corrected sheets will not be ready for about three months.

Is working on a new edition of Coral reefs, which he thinks would sell in Germany.

Would like to hear "out of curiosity & vanity" how many copies of his books have been sold in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9252G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
21 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (8 June 2005)
Summary:

Asks for information about the title and date of Semper’s essay disputing CD’s theory of coral reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
24 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Has ordered James Clerk Maxwell’s book [On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings (1859)] as a present for Sofya Kovalevsky.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9258

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29 Jan [1874]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 377)
Summary:

Discusses THH’s account of the séance. CD convinced all are fraudulent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7466F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1874?]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 152
Summary:

Returns and sends comments on Clarke Hawkshaw’s essay ‘The persistence of forms of life in the depths of the sea’.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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