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DCP-LETT-9344

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
9 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/60)
Summary:

Asks AN to vote for CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, at the Athenaeum.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9354

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
12 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/61)
Summary:

Cannot answer AN’s questions about Origin; it would take weeks to find the references. Assures AN he stated nothing without an authority he thought good.

Feels sure missel thrushes have increased in number since his youth. Starlings have also increased astonishingly in Kent. "How inexplicable most of these cases are".

In a P.S. remembers his source for statement about increase of missel thrushes in Origin.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9359

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
14 Mar 1874
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/62)
Summary:

Can give no definite information. Believes severe winters are by far the most important check on numbers of birds; the destruction of eggs is of subordinate importance.

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