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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 90
Summary:

Complies with correspondent’s request; encloses photographs of himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 92
Summary:

Letter of reference giving his opinion of the character of a man who has been his footman for a year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 50
Summary:

Asks GHD to calculate average or mean heights of crossed and self-fertilised plant species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
13 Jan [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 54
Summary:

Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
26 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 148: 91
Summary:

Obliged for Belfast Journal.

Almost impossible to determine what constitutes an individual. Definition for sexually reproducing organisms does not apply to lower ones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
27 Jan [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 17
Summary:

Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 403
Summary:

Promises to vote for Lankester.

Acknowledges faults of R. L. Tait’s paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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