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DCP-LETT-10949

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
2 May [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

‘The pigs-foot has been dispatched to day per Rail.’

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10950

From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.511)
Summary:

Discusses abnormal pig’s foot sent to him by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10962

From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Otto Zacharias
Date:
17 May 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.512)
Summary:

Further discussion of structure of abnormal pig’s foot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10971

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 May 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.513)
Summary:

Thanks him for book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].

Comments on dispute over spontaneous generation.

The Council [of the Royal Society] will not print Frank Darwin’s paper on Dipsacus [in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.].

Mentions GJR’s grafting experiments

and his investigation of spiritualism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10973

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27–8 May [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.514, Mss.B.D25.546)
Summary:

Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].

Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.

Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].

Invites him to visit

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