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From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 30 May 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 106: A6–7
Summary:

Sends drawings of dogs in different attitudes, drawn by his friend A. May. FD should not trouble CD unless he thinks the drawings will please him. [See Expression, pp. 54–5.]

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From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 199.5: 100
Summary:

Offers to send MS of part of his new book [Life and habit] which gently pokes fun at CD. His book will offer an alternative to Pangenesis.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 393
Summary:

SB’s book [Life and habit (1878)] will be bound shortly. He will send two copies, one of which can be given to CD. To SB’s surprise it has turned out to be an attack on CD’s views and a defence of Lamarck; describes how he was brought to the opinions expressed in it.

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