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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 some "composite portraits", including three of their family ancestors, as described in Nature [18 (1878): 97–100].
Sends fragment of bone from the head of a fish called "Corbin", brought from River Plate by her brother.
Is glad RM will draw up a paper from Fritz Müller’s letter.
Request an autograph.
Applies sexual selection to origin of dog race [deerhound]. Proposes descent from a large extinct dog.
Has found a few examples of Ranunculus repens with stamens reduced as in R. acris.
Thanks FL for the Plantago specimens. FL’s view of the stages by which the plant has become gynodioecious seems very probable.
Comments on WN’s Oregon: there and back (1878).
Requests, as Treasurer of the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund, part of the amount guaranteed by CD and family to defray expenses incurred in resisting closure of the footpath.
Thank CD for autograph.
Remits subscription as requested by EWF as the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund [see 11535].