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SOMERVILLE161

From:
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield)
To:
Martha Charters Somerville
Date:
18 May 1877
Source of text:
MSD 3 / 127, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-10989F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 June 1877
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5)
Summary:

CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.

CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11077

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Henry Sayce
Date:
28 July 1877
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. lett. d. 63, fols. 51–2)
Summary:

Thinks "mum" comes from shutting the mouth repeatedly as a sign of wanting to eat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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