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DCP-LETT-8574

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 86
Summary:

Doubts accuracy of Bible translations quoted by CD as evidence that Semitic races blush.

Questions his note on derivation of words like "ugly", "huge", etc.

Lists some mistakes and misprints.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8573

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 233–4
Summary:

Asks for London address of George King [Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta], so he can ask about worm-castings sent by King from S. India. Has just received a splendid letter from John Scott on worms.

Asks where he can buy Dionaea.

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