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DCP-LETT-10379

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 24 (EH 88205962)
Summary:

Sends congratulations and a teapot on the occasion of JT’s engagement.

Is pleased JT is not giving up on the spontaneous generation question. Feels strongly that subject will not be clear until it is understood how J. S. Burdon Sanderson and others succeeded in getting bacteria in infusions they had boiled for a long time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10387

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
11 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 179
Summary:

Comments on her new book [A short history of natural science (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10840

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
11 Feb 1876
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (FS 1/232, no. 643)
Summary:

Writes as a trustee of the Down Friendly Society regarding difficulties over the recording of the names of the trustees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Christie Thomson
Date:
11 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 14)
Summary:

Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
14 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 338
Summary:

Declines invitation to accompany JJW to Crystal Palace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10409

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
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