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DCP-LETT-8711

From:
James Brander Dunbar-Brander
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 July 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 279
Summary:

Offers different explanations [from CD’s in Expression] for movements of dogs after voiding, and for their turning around before lying down.

CD is also wrong in saying hares do not cry except when they suffer.

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DCP-LETT-8971

From:
Bushell Anningson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 159: 73
Summary:

Comments on the form and function of a muscle in the rectal region of animals.

Discusses the scratching action of dogs.

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WCP4316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July [1873]
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 77 [enclosure]
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 316]
Summary:

Mentions Dr Krefft and discusses a caterpillar in Sydney whose cocoon imitated the leaf to which it was attached.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
9 July [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.409)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for his kind and generous exertions [to get CD elected to French Academy?].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8970

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July [1873]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350 Box 1 Wallace MSS)
Summary:

Forwards photograph, sent by [J. L. G.] Krefft, of a chrysalis attached to its food-plant; the chrysalis has adjusted its colour remarkably.

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