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DCP-LETT-6595

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
[23 Oct 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 7
Summary:

Suggests time for AA to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7793

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 8
Summary:

Discusses homologies in various animal groups.

Comments on Mivart [Genesis of species].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7918G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
28 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (13 December 2018, lot 236)
Summary:

Thanks AA for a ‘splendid case of gradation of structure’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7932

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
10 Sept [1871 or 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 9
Summary:

Discusses exchange of books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13145

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
5 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 11
Summary:

Responds to comments on geology of Florida.

Discusses coral reefs and paper by John Murray ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1880): 505–18].

Comments on AA’s paper ["Paleontological and embryological development", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 29 (1880): 389–414].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12965

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
1 [June] 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 10
Summary:

Thanks AA for letter on coral reefs. "I used to think … that areas of elevation and of subsidence must – as a general rule be separated by a single great line of fissure, or rather of several".

Suggests that AA urge again his views on reappearance of old characters.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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