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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 September [1877]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 280-281
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 301-302]
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11129

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 83
Summary:

Sends two papers on Roman ruins at Cirencester, which he asks CD to return.

Worm observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-77-09-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edwin Jephcott
Date:
5 September 1877
Source of text:
Private Hands
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11128

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
5 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 93–4)
Summary:

Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11127

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Further discussion of evidence for sexual selection. Prefers "conscious" to "voluntary" action. Distinguishes features that serve as charms and those that serve as challenges.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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