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DCP-LETT-11712A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
1 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 176
Summary:

Encloses a cheque for £11.19.9. Will transmit £7.9.4 to Fritz Müller. Thanks for account of the sale of his books, which appears to be in a "lamentable state".

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DCP-LETT-11713

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 474
Summary:

Wants Oxalis specimen named; is fascinated by cotyledonary movements of the genus.

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DCP-LETT-11715

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 475–6
Summary:

Before JDH discusses flora of Canary Islands CD suggests he read F. B. White’s paper [see 11707], which explains stocking of Atlantic island fauna as due to changed currents during [last, or Miocene] northern glacial period.

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DCP-LETT-11729

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
29 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 74
Summary:

Rejoices that he should have "staggered" William Thomson so quickly and that the latter should speak of GHD’s "discovery". The internal heat [of the earth] will please geologists and evolutionists.

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