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DCP-LETT-7914

From:
Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton; Charles Eliot Norton
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
21 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 76
Summary:

Chauncey Wright’s title is "Secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7915

From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21] Aug [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 189
Summary:

Intends to visit CD at Haredene.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7916

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
[22 Aug 1871]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 71)
Summary:

CD is very unwell; will be unable to see RT.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-08-23

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
23 August 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 80
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7917

From:
James Lamont, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 110–11
Summary:

JL’s views on the sexual peculiarities of the bladder-nosed seal, Cystophora cristata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7918

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 127
Summary:

Describes the successful excavation of caves containing interred remains of Neolithic man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7918G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
28 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (13 December 2018, lot 236)
Summary:

Thanks AA for a ‘splendid case of gradation of structure’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-08-29b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
29 August 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81. f. 19
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7918F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:
29 Aug 1871
Source of text:
B. and L. Rootenberg (dealers) [2003]
Summary:

Sends details of trains for a clerk to travel to Down from London and back.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7919

From:
John Willis Clark
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 153
Summary:

Thanks CD for Beagle specimens donated to the Museum.

Asks for a live Helix pomatia for dissection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7927

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[31 Aug 1871]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 9 September 1871, p. 1166
Summary:

In response to a query [from "F. W. B."], CD describes his experience with seeding Leschenaultia, which demonstrates that insect agency is required.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7919F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
31 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Herne Bay Historical Records Society (Dr Tom Bowes’s scrapbook 4 p. 71)
Summary:

Sends an article for insertion in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Suggests sending a proof ‘as my hand-writing is so bad’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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