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DCP-LETT-7906

From:
Émile Alglave
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 38
Summary:

Has reached an understanding with CD’s French translator [J. Moulinié] and publisher [C. Reinwald] for Descent. Has printed first chapter in last number of Revue Scientifique and sent CD copies; is sending proofs of translation of next chapter for CD to correct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7908

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 266
Summary:

Refused to write a treatise on geological time.

His paper on W. B. Carpenter’s theory of ocean currents is appearing soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7907

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
17 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 226–7)
Summary:

Asks JM whether he will publish 750 copies of a pamphlet [Chauncey Wright’s review of Mivart’s Genesis of species, North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 63–103] at CD’s expense.

Has been ill so cannot say when he will finish new edition of Origin.

Asks about sales and printing of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-M71-08-17

From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
17 August 1871
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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