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DCP-LETT-13366

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bourchier Wrey Savile
Date:
[before 8 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Record n.s. 1 (1882): 149
Summary:

There is ‘some gradation in perfection with mammals in the mammery glands’. Discusses milk secretion in Echidna. Instances a fish in which the ova hatch in a sack on the male and the young feed on mucus secreted by the sack lining; ‘here … we see what might be the commencement of a simple mammery gland’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13377

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Shaw Billings
Date:
8 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda (History of Medicine Division, Modern Manuscripts Collection)
Summary:

Invites JSB and W. M. Ord to Down, and gives instructions for getting there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13378

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 520
Summary:

Will perhaps have to print off 1000 extra copies [of Earthworms]. Electros of the woodcuts are ready for the German edition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-10-08

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
8 October 1881
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 331-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-10-08a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
8 October 1881
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13379A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
8 Oct 1881
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 63, 1988)
Summary:

Encloses a cheque for £11.5.0 for subscriptions from CD and members of his family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13379

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 31
Summary:

On proposed sale of property to CD by Sydney Sales. [The site of the Down House hard tennis court.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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