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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
16 Apr [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–81: f. 43)
Summary:

Thanks for Saxifraga. CD had shown in Insectivorous plants [pp. 345–7] that this genus had some powers of absorption.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:
28 Nov 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–1951, HNR/2/1/2: f. 42)
Summary:

Does not think sermon by E. B. Pusey [see 11763] is worth a reply. HNR may quote CD as saying that Pusey is "mistaken in imagining that I wrote the Origin with any relation whatever to Theology". Pusey’s attack will be powerless to retard belief in evolution.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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