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DCP-LETT-7952

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:
20 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks whether any goose sifts water with its beak.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7954

From:
Edward Bartlett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 49
Summary:

Reports on variations in the development of lamellae and how the bills are used in several kinds of geese. Will send skins for examination.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7957

From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 164
Summary:

Offers his services for the future.

Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7953

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 99: 39–42
Summary:

Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].

Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].

Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.

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DCP-LETT-7955

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 50
Summary:

Surprised at Mivart’s harsh review [Q. Rev. 131 (1871): 47–90], considering courteous tone of his book. Assures CD he has not been converted by Mivart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7956

From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 178: 190
Summary:

On St G. J. Mivart’s Genesis of species and Chauncey Wright’s review of it [North Am. Rev. (July 1871)].

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