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DCP-LETT-7135

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
15 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 92
Summary:

CD much interested by ERL’s book [On comparative longevity (1870)]. Is pleased to find ERL refers to CD’s "despised child" Pangenesis, and is also pleased how thoroughly ERL appreciates Herbert Spencer, a philosopher perhaps equal to any that has lived.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
22 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 30, LL 3: 138, 200
Summary:

Asks for photograph of pointed ear of ERL’s friend.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8287

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
15 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 31
Summary:

Discusses error in CD’s calculation of natural increase of elephants.

Includes extract from Origin.

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