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DCP-LETT-7579A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202150)
Summary:

Asks whether Bugis [Buggess] are Malays. [See 7587.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12256A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Oct 1879
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88207898)
Summary:

Rejoices at THF’s consenting to the marriage of his daughter Ida and Horace Darwin, although the match is a poor one for Ida "in a worldly point of view". [See 12253.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12333

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr
Date:
23 Nov 1879
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (Scrapbook)
Summary:

Has never heard of bees that are carnivorous; hopes someone will investigate ASP’s observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13670

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Horsfall
Date:
8 Feb 1882
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (Scrapbook)
Summary:

Does not feel that the occurrence of perfect trilobites in the oldest known fossil-bearing rocks is fatal to evolution, as he does not believe these rocks to be contemporaneous with the first appearance of life.

Locomotive spores of some algae are like animals.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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