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DCP-LETT-8672

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
11 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks AdeC for great pleasure his new book [Histoire des sciences (1873)] has given him. Comments on several of the essays.

When AdeC backs up Asa Gray in saying all instincts are congenital habits, CD must protest.

Asks several questions about butterflies of the Alps discussed on p. 322 [of Histoire].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8671

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B84–5
Summary:

Thinks Mr Salt has not understood about their wills and wants to clarify the matter when he has heard from CD.

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DCP-LETT-8673

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Félix Joseph Henri (Henri) de Lacaze-Duthiers
Date:
11 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Archives de l’Académie des sciences, Paris (27 J Fonds Lacaze-Duthiers)
Summary:

Thanks HdeL-D for his photograph and encloses one of himself.

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