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DCP-LETT-8576

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 427
Summary:

Does not understand Reinwald [French publisher of Expression], who apparently intends an edition of only 500 copies. Sends first copy to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8578

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 126–7
Summary:

Has initiated inquiries about Dionaea.

Sends George King’s address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8584

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 128–9
Summary:

Sends Mrs Barber’s address.

Gratified that CD hates Owen. Hopes Owen will not answer Nature letter and draw JDH into controversy. Owen’s letter was not intended for Ayrton to use. Its appearance must have horrified him.

State of Huxley’s health makes JDH uneasy.

Willy is in a stockbroker’s office in London and likes it.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8587

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 87
Summary:

JVC questions accuracy of Hensleigh Wedgwood’s statement that the word for a toad in all European languages expresses the habit of swelling [see Expression, p. 104]. Has changed "all" to "some".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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