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DCP-LETT-7190

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
15 May 1870
Source of text:
DAR 147: 256–8
Summary:

Comments on WP’s biographical article on CD. Asks him to thank O. F. Peschel for his present of the publication [Das Ausland 2 Apr 1870].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7729

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
30 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 147: 265–7
Summary:

Is sending copy of Descent.

Thanks for copy of WP’s book [Die Blutkrystalle (1871)].

Discusses shape of external ear.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7756

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
13 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 147: 267–8
Summary:

Obliged for letter about human ear. Comments on ears and on E. R. Lankester’s idea about the ear-lobe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
8 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 268–9
Summary:

Discusses inheritance.

Has WP heard of Douglas Spalding’s experiments of blindfolding chickens ["Instinct – with original observations on young animals", Rep. BAAS 42 (1872): 141–3]?

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11331

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
25 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 147: 269
Summary:

Thanks WP for election [as honorary member of the Medicinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Gessellschaft zu Jena].

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