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DCP-LETT-7944

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

CD questions ADB on the mode of feeding of geese and on the existence of variations in the structure of the bill; is trying to trace gradations in structure and habits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-M71-09-15a

From:
Gustav von Silcher
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
15 September 1871
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7945

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 83–84
Summary:

His mother very ill.

Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.

Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.

Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7943

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Royle Martin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.403)
Summary:

Buys ten shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7948

From:
H. Marval
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 77–8
Summary:

Observations on behaviour of spiders in Astrakhan and Turkestan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7947

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 48
Summary:

Believes CD will not consider him a good Darwinian since he accepts natural selection only as a secondary law.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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