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DCP-LETT-8280

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:

Asks to borrow "Sölberg Wells, Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye 1869" referred to by F. C. Donders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8278

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.413)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for an interesting paper [unspecified] and his kind remarks about CD’s work.

CD had forgotten Auguste Comte’s "striking observations" on relations of man to lower animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8279

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 143: 413
Summary:

Thanks FCD for information, which will make him "strike out a good deal".

Has received German pamphlet.

Will read work by John Soelberg Wells [? A treatise on the diseases of the eye (1869, 1870)].

Discusses his work on expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8281

From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 173: 69
Summary:

Wild plants that live at the edges of civilisation, e.g., forest flowers growing on grazed land, are always reduced in size.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8282

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:

Responds to GdeS’s comments on Descent [see 8246]. Cannot give up belief in close relationship of man to higher Simiae.

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