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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Sends last chapter of Orchids [1877] for revision.
Has some articles that might interest FD.
Has invited Ferdinand Cohn and his wife to Down but hopes they will not come.
Identifies South American fossils in photographs sent by John Van der Weyde.
Sends J. H. Baxter, Statistics, medical and anthropological [2 vols. (1875)]; asks CD’s opinion on correlation of stature with certain types of diseases.
Sends [unidentified] volume for FD.
Ferdinand Cohn is coming to Down.
Recommends that CD buy a plot of land.
Discusses the purchase of some land;
plans to visit Southampton.
Mr Laslett, a builder, will meet WCM on Tuesday.
Thanks JVdW for photographs of fossils; [W. H.] Flower has identified them as Toxodon and Mylodon.
Sends suggestions for collecting fossil mammals in Argentina and Uruguay.