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DCP-LETT-8570

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 425
Summary:

Presentation copies [of Expression] will be ready in a week. Has ordered only 250 copies to have cut edges because trade prefers uncut pages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8568

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 Oct 1872
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (100)
Summary:

Spiralling of tendrils.

Has worked hard on Drosera.

Is interested in tracing the "nerves" of Dionaea which follow the vascular bundles. Finds he can paralyse half of the leaf by pricking it at a certain point.

Wishes AG to carry out two experiments on D. filiformis.

Has received AG’s Dubuque address [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 4 (1872): 282–98].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8569

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 231–2
Summary:

Condolences on death of JDH’s mother.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8567

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 301)
Summary:

Supports the abolition of prize fellowships at the universities.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8571

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 97
Summary:

Samuel Pozzi has been proposed by C. Martin and Paul Broca as translator of Expression.

First volume of Descent has sold 1200 copies.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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