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DCP-LETT-7557

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 16
Summary:

Thanks for Descent.

Reveals that it is his own family that has the movable scalp.

The Franco-Prussian war has held up the publication of the 17th and last volume of the Prodromus.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-03-08

From:
Marcus Clarke
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 March 1871
Source of text:
Letter no. 52/I.T.M.71, Outward letterbook 1870-9 pp. 157, Industrial and Technological Museum and Public Library, Museum Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 222–3)
Summary:

Asks what his profits on the reprints of Descent will be when half have been sold.

Good reviews in Saturday Review and Pall Mall Gazette;

contemptuous one as usual in Athenæum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7555F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[8, 9 or 10] Mar 1871
Source of text:
Nicols 1883 , p. 74
Summary:

The information about the phascolarctos [koala] is very surprising, and he will preserve AM’s note.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 11 (EH 88205949)
Summary:

Thanks JT for his kindness to Ogle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7556

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C8
Summary:

Has seen Ogle. His subject [olfactory nerve tissue and absorption of odours] has often occupied JT’s attention.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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