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DCP-LETT-8158

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (99)
Summary:

Questions AG on earthworm activity in North America and would welcome information from northern Canada if AG has a correspondent there.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7442A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Hough
Date:
15 Jan [1872-4]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (Tipped into Origin 5th ed. Strong Room E 920 D1 (4))
Summary:

His thanks for the curious photograph. Since he has similar ones he will not "rob" AH of it.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8159

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
15 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 289
Summary:

Obliged for QdeB’s efforts [to have CD elected member of Académie Française].

With regard to stress that QdeB lays on man’s walking on two legs, no one attributes much significance to difference in mode of locomotion between seals and terrestrial Carnivora or kangaroos and other marsupials.

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DCP-LETT-8159F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
15 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68
Summary:

Is resuming the study of worm-casts as he believes they will bear on the denudation of land. Requests specific information on the relative number, size, and manner of deterioration of worm-casts in India.

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