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From:
Brodie, Jessie
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
22 November 1871
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 27
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 47)
Summary:
Sends back proofs. Praises CD for calm treatment of Mivart. Looks at duck’s mouth. Asks whether CD has seen Snow’s article in the Spectator.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Federico Delpino
Date:
22 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Anna Barone (private collection)
Summary:
Will send FD’s work [Studi sopra un lignaggio anemofilo delle composte (1871)] to Nature for review.
CD’s health has been poor all summer – he doubts that he will ever "have the strength to publish on Variability under a state of Nature".
Hopes to publish on cross- and self-fertilisation next summer.
Encloses his photo and asks for FD’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 148
Summary:
Effect of turf covering on the disintegration of rocks. Weathering of rock; relative importance of different agents with different rocks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
