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DCP-LETT-8019

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
19 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 9 (EH 88205982)
Summary:

Thanks ACR for papers.

Glad present situation of our continents has been confirmed.

Wishes ACR would prove his view of origin of Red Sandstones, which many dispute.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8019A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
19 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:

CD would like to see the Prion [see 8016]. May he immerse the head in warm water so as to open the beak? Directions for sending the parcel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
19 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 148: 328
Summary:

"Like you I have often wondered at the different food of the old and young, as with graminivorous birds feeding their young with insects."

Recommends forthcoming book by John Lubbock [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].

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