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DCP-LETT-11701

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 112
Summary:

Inquires about a rumour that CD or Francis Darwin is preparing a new book on the "Power of inheritance".

Tells CD of his new periodical: Zoologische Anzeiger.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0485

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
21 September [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 116
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11701F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 22, January 2018, item 20)
Summary:

Cannot explain the peculiarities of the blood corpuscles of the Camelidae; maybe similarity between camels and ostriches arises from adaptation rather than common ancestry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11699

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.548)
Summary:

Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11700

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks him for plant specimens.

Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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