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DCP-LETT-10432

From:
Robert Bell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 127
Summary:

Encloses letter printed in the Toronto Globe about the discovery on Prince Edward Island of a skeleton of a tailed man.

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DCP-LETT-10433

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Axel Gudbrand (Axel) Blytt
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:

Thanks AB for his paper on the Norwegian flora ["Forsög til en Theori om Invandringen af Norges Flora", Nyt Mag. Naturvidensk. 21 (1876): 279–362]. Appears to CD to be the most important contribution towards understanding the present distribution of plants since Edward Forbes’s essay on the effects of the glacial period ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. Engl. & Wales 1 (1846): 336–432].

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DCP-LETT-10435

From:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
DAR 161: 201
Summary:

Has had doctoral student [Alexander Fraustadt] working on the physiology and chemistry (i.e., chlorophyll and starch distribution) and comparative anatomy of Dionaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10434

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
28 Mar 1876
Source of text:
Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996)
Summary:

James Paget’s scepticism about regrowth of digits. Suggests RLT experiment with amputation of digits, both extra and normal, of kittens and fowls. Fears they will fail to regrow, but, if regrowth is proved, it will be an important discovery.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3370

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alexander Macmillan
Date:
28 March 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 9-10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10242

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 50
Summary:

Personal news – is unwell.

Mentions "Twin-papers" ["Short notes on heredity, etc., in twins", J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 324–9] sent by Galton.

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