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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[8, 9 or 10] Mar 1871
Source of text:
Nicols 1883 , p. 74
Summary:

The information about the phascolarctos [koala] is very surprising, and he will preserve AM’s note.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[after 20 Aug 1872?]
Source of text:
Nicols 1885 , p. 192
Summary:

Can believe animals communicate together, but does not know how.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[20 Mar 1873]
Source of text:
Nicols 1885 , p. 52
Summary:

Responds to AN’s observations on sense of smell in cats and dogs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[before 10 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
Nature , 20 February 1879, p. 365
Summary:

Does not doubt animals reason in a practical fashion. Do not the rats hear the water trickling?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 65/1v
Summary:

Supports AN’s idea [of a natural history book for children].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project