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DCP-LETT-13629

From:
William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan [1882]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 323
Summary:

Has just read CD’s book on worms and is finding tower-like worm-casts, as CD described, in Alpes-Maritimes. Relates case of garden worms and moles.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13628

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 95: 545
Summary:

CD sends cheque for £250 [see 13620].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13630

From:
John Dixon Kendall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 169: 5
Summary:

Suggests that the tendency of the left arm to move with the right leg (and vice versa) during walking is a rudiment of quadrupedal locomotion and thus bears on the descent of man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13627

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 Jan 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.612)
Summary:

Prefers to make the present of microscope at once [to Grant Allen].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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