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From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 230
Summary:

Sorry he missed CD when he called. Suggests a time he can call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 231
Summary:

Responds to CD’s criticism of his handling of adaptation theory [in Rep. BAAS 26 (1866): liii–lxxxi].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 232
Summary:

Sends a "remarkable" enclosure [missing], evidently by a working man, which will interest CD as "shewing that ideas are spread".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 233
Summary:

Asks CD to breakfast in London on Tuesday [24 Mar].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 234
Summary:

He and another Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn have signed the necessary certificates for admission of CD’s son [George].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
2 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 235
Summary:

Asks Lyell to put a question to CD: "To what far distant origin can the configuration of the skin surface [the symmetrical but different curves] at the last points of the fingers and toes be traced?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5–8 July 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 190–2
Summary:

Mammae in human males.

The role of natural selection in the development of beards and manes of animals.

Hereditary pointing in setters.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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