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DCP-LETT-9673A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
11 Oct 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Acknowledges the information about the phosphate and about putrefaction. Regrets that there is no knowledge of the conjectured substance. [See 9671.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9673

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 226–7
Summary:

Oliver will attend to his letter.

Tells of discovery and rediscovery of Aldrovanda.

Asks what CD thinks of "old Pritchard’s discourse" [C. Pritchard, Natural science and natural religion (1874)]. Does not affect evolution at all. It does affect the rather unprofitable doctrine of materialism.

His plans for the Royal Society Presidential Address.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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