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From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 10 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 62
Summary:

Discusses his ambitions.

Writes of rats that gnaw through lead pipes to find water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[before 10 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
Nature , 20 February 1879, p. 365
Summary:

Does not doubt animals reason in a practical fashion. Do not the rats hear the water trickling?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
10 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/20)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s paper ["The history of twins"].

CD is "in a passion with the Spectator who always muddles".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 172: 63
Summary:

Apologises for troubling CD to look for his lost MS.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
10 Nov 1875
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 2)
Summary:

Suggests that, if HdV make further observations on tendrils, he attend to Echinocystis, as described on p. 132 of Climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project