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From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 159: 114b, 114c
Summary:

Offers his services to CD as an observer in the Azores. Has studied the local natural history and is a great disciple of CD’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 159: 114a
Summary:

Many thanks for CD’s advice and suggestions. His letter is a great source of encouragement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 159: 114d
Summary:

Has been collecting on the mountain summits and wants someone with whom to communicate about plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0032)
Summary:

Thanks CD for sending Wallace’s book [see 13313]

and for writing to Hooker about FdeAF’s plants. Has written to Hooker to tell him of the plants he is sending and discuss the subject of the cypress trunks.

Thanks CD for his detailed instructions for suggested experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0036)
Summary:

Reports having found orthopteran egg-cases, affixed to a chalk statuette, that had themselves been coated with chalk, without doubt by the insect that deposited them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 181/39)
Summary:

The statues on which the egg-cases were found were perfectly clean and had never been painted.

Reports on fossilised leaf-prints he has found on the island. Found no seeds or land shells at the site.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project