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DCP-LETT-10512

From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 120–2
Summary:

Comments on his examination of slides [of milk casein?] sent by CD.

Surprised by CD’s finding that a drop of one per cent hydrochloric acid stops digestion of albumen by Drosera.

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DCP-LETT-9464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
23 May [1874]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 120–121)
Summary:

Descent [2d English ed.] will not be published until November. Will send JVC first sheet of revised proofs soon.

Pleased to hear of success of JVC’s lectures.

Summer plans have changed. Does not yet know when he will take a month’s holiday.

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DCP-LETT-9465

From:
George Edward Dobson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 192
Summary:

Sends his paper ["On secondary sexual characters in the Cheiroptera", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 241–52]

and some of his observations of the gecko, which appear to contradict CD’s opinion.

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DCP-LETT-5098

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
23 May [1874-5]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (tipped into a copy of Orchids )
Summary:

"With kind regards, & many thanks for Prof. Steenstrup’s Photograph, which is most highly valued by C. Darwin"

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