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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 67)
Summary:

"I have always been inclined to think that sparrows were acute & crafty birds, but you certainly show that they are Fools, & if they go on behaving in so idiotic a manner, you will do quite right to expose their conduct in some public Journal!--"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 245: 313
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 41)
Summary:

Is printing a book on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers] in which he will make considerable use of FM’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 106
Summary:

French translation of Insectivorous plants published.

Climbing plants has not sold well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 214
Summary:

Discusses the structure of the human cranium, in particular a find by Cocchi and observations by Canestrini.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project