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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 24 July 1873]
Source of text:
Nature , 24 July 1873, p. 244
Summary:

Sends a letter from J. D. Hague confirming his earlier observation [see 8788] of frightened behaviour of ants when they come upon dead ants. CD had asked for confirmation because J. T. Moggridge had suggested that the ants’ behaviour was alarm at the scent of the observer’s fingers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 220
Summary:

CD has clarified the way to conduct the formic acid experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Samuel Birley ("Parallax") Rowbotham
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 July 1873
Source of text:
Anon. (1873). The challenge: its acceptance, trial, and postponement. The Zetetic and Anti-Theorist : 2 : 41-47 [p. 42]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Armand Sabatier
Date:
24 July 1873
Source of text:
Colby College Libraries
Summary:

Thanks for Études sur la coeur et la circulation centrale dans la série des vertébrés (Studies on the heart and the central circulation in the vertebrate series; Sabatier 1873).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project