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DCP-LETT-8564F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Date:
[c. 1 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Crerar Manuscript 131)
Summary:

Will let CIFM know [probably about John Murray’s terms for an Italian translation of Expression].

Thanks for information about hornless fossil Bos etruscus and Miocene fossils of genus Sus [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 505, 521].

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DCP-LETT-8731

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Spectator
Date:
11 Jan 1873
Source of text:
Spectator , 18 January 1873, p. 76.
Summary:

Discusses two factors possibly causing modification of body or mind of an organism; habit and direct action of external conditions on the one hand, and selection, natural or artificial, on the other; considers their relative importance.

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DCP-LETT-10843

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
13 Feb 1877
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Has read a large part of the Novara voyage [Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe by the Austrian frigate "Novara" (1861–3)] with pleasure. CD was particularly interested in the scandalous French behaviour at Tahiti.

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