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DCP-LETT-9450

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Mellard Reade
Date:
9 May 1874
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (TMR1.D.7.1)
Summary:

Interested in TMR’s investigation of drift. Narrative 1: 545–6 contains catalogue of shells collected. Much struck by marine productions of Tierra del Fuego.

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DCP-LETT-9760

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
15 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (Rathbone XXI.12.3: 4)
Summary:

Asks JL to send ten shillings for the Down Friendly Club.

Has just read JL’s paper on bees and wasps [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 110–39]. Is astonished by their stupidity. The experiments on colour are especially good. Suggests JL examine their retinas; sends enclosure [missing] on eyes of reptiles and birds.

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