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From:
William Crookes
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 December 1878
Source of text:
Fournier d'Albe, E. E. (1923). In: The Life of Sir William Crookes . London: T. Fisher Unwin. [p. 295]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11717

From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 [Dec] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.551)
Summary:

Describes findings of examination of geese with abnormal wings. Says old gander that sired geese is without injury or abnormality. Encloses his assistant’s report.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11776

From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 120
Summary:

Asks whether he may use CD’s letters in his work [Die natürlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere (1880)] in order to show that Moritz Wagner has misrepresented CD’s views.

Discusses the influence of isolation and external conditions on animals, and the relative importance of the direct effect of external conditions and of selection in bringing about change.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11777

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
[after 6 Dec 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 120v
Summary:

Gives CGS permission to use his letters in any way he thinks fit.

Discusses the direct effect of external conditions as an agent of change in organisms; has encountered many cases since the publication of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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