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DCP-LETT-5487

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Blunt
Date:
5 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection MS Am 1631: 95)
Summary:

Congratulates TB on his son’s success in scientific studies.

Susan Darwin’s death [Oct 1866] has severed last ties of family with Shrewsbury.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
7 Sept 1868
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/46)
Summary:

Appreciates MJB’s address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7]. Has had great respect for MJB’s knowledge since his undergraduate days at Cambridge.

Agrees that Pangenesis gemmules probably do not develop into free cells, but penetrate other cells in a manner analogous to fertilisation, and modify their development.

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