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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
24 June [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36235)
Summary:

Thinks there is no particular interest in the abnormality in question.

Also CD has looked at several flowers and believes WDC may be mistaken in believing there is a rudimentary anther cell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 263
Summary:

Has found a Dytiscus marginalis with a small bivalve attached to its leg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
21 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36222)
Summary:

His Dytiscus fact interesting. Indispensable to know name of shell. Case worth communicating to Nature. [See "On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Nature 6 April 1882, pp. 529–30.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 264
Summary:

Has identified the shell, now separated from the beetle. Sends both to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36224)
Summary:

Asks further questions about shell attached to beetle’s leg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 265
Summary:

Sends further details about the beetle and mussel sent to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 266
Summary:

Has found a frog with bivalve attached to hind leg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
10 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36226)
Summary:

Will send shell by post to British Museum. Will prepare article for Nature [see 13696].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
23 Mar 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36228)
Summary:

Shell smashed by careless servant. May have been Cyclas cornea. Will send letter to Nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1882
Source of text:
DAR 161: 253
Summary:

According to John Gwyn Jeffreys’ book [British conchology (1862–9)] shell is Sphaerium corneum, a synonym of Cyclas cornea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Drawbridge Crick
Date:
26 Mar 1882
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36230)
Summary:

Will send letter to Nature about shell [attached to beetle]. Will use old name of Cyclas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project