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From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 135
Summary:

Discusses coral reefs

and encloses a copy of his "Reisebericht" [Z. Wiss. Zool. 13 (1863): 538–70], as requested by CD.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 136
Summary:

Comments on G. H. Lewes’s book [The life and works of Goethe (1855)].

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From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 137
Summary:

Explains why he did not add his photograph to the album presented by German naturalists to CD. Instead he wishes to dedicate to CD his work on the vertebrate-type eyes on the back of some Mollusca. [Enclosed is a MS introduction to this work, Über Sehorgane von Typus der Wirbelthieraugen auf dem Rücken von Schnecken.].

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From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 138
Summary:

Sends work on dorsal eyes of Onchidium ["Über Schneckenaugen", Arch. Mikrosk. Anat. 14 (1877): 118–24]. Comments on work.

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From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 139
Summary:

Thanks CD for his kind letter and accepts his offer of a writing machine.

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From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 140
Summary:

Thanks CD for writing machine.

Recalls visit by CD’s son [Francis].

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From:
Carl Gottfried Semper
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 120
Summary:

Asks whether he may use CD’s letters in his work [Die natürlichen Existenzbedingungen der Thiere (1880)] in order to show that Moritz Wagner has misrepresented CD’s views.

Discusses the influence of isolation and external conditions on animals, and the relative importance of the direct effect of external conditions and of selection in bringing about change.

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