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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John J. (John) Van der Weyde
Date:
29 Sept 1876
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Charles Robert Darwin miscellaneous file)
Summary:

Thanks JVdW for photographs of fossils; [W. H.] Flower has identified them as Toxodon and Mylodon.

Sends suggestions for collecting fossil mammals in Argentina and Uruguay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whitman Bailey
Date:
10 Dec [1877]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Alfred Williams Anthony collection: box 7, folder 10)
Summary:

"Many thanks for the specimens which will be very useful whenever a new Edition is required."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah Mason
Date:
22 Sept 1880
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Montague Collection of historical autographs: Series 1, box 2, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Sends formal regrets that he cannot accept luncheon invitation or attend Huxley’s address [at opening of Mason College, Birmingham].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
20 Oct [1860]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Richard John Levy and Sally Waldman Sweet collection: box 2, folder 12)
Summary:

Thanks for fact about ducks in Ceylon. Asks for more information.

Pleased by GHKT’s sentence [about Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
25 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Miscellaneous papers)
Summary:

Thanks for two reviews of Descent. Second is "most fair, kind and carefully abstracted".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustavus Augustus Eisen
Date:
3 Dec 1871
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Miscellaneous papers)
Summary:

Thanks GAE for memoir on earthworms [Bidrag till Skandinaviens Oligochaetfauna (1871)]. CD by chance is just now observing "one little point in their habits". Will be happy to learn something about the places frequented by the various species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
24 Feb 1875
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Montague Collection of historical autographs: Series 1, box 2, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Is much obliged to TW and his friend for having told him about the azalea, but CD had already seen the account.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project