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DCP-LETT-7792

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Suess
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.397)
Summary:

Thanks for his election to the Austrian Imperial Academy.

Is sorry ES has suffered in health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7803

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
6 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.419)
Summary:

Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].

Invites him to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7809

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
8 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.407)
Summary:

Comments on dubious story involving natural history of Formosa. Suggests that Robert Swinhoe could give an answer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7824

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
19 June 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks FCD for information about eyes [for Expression].

Must interrupt work on the subject to prepare new edition of Origin [6th].

Comments on gift of a new work by FCD [possibly "Die Projection der Gesichtserscheinung nach der Richtungslinien", Arch. Opthalmol. 17 (1871) Abt. 2: 1–68].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7830

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
22 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.399)
Summary:

Thanks JTM for information on ants.

Mentions letter "from a Texas gentleman" Gideon Lincecum describing ants that plant seeds [see 3082].

Notes that fly orchid is unattractive to insects. Asks JTM to attempt fertilisation experiment with this plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7832

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
26 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.400)
Summary:

Invites MF to visit.

Asks where he can obtain curare for plant experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7837

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
29 [June 1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.401)
Summary:

Thanks him for curare.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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