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DCP-LETT-8587

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 87
Summary:

JVC questions accuracy of Hensleigh Wedgwood’s statement that the word for a toad in all European languages expresses the habit of swelling [see Expression, p. 104]. Has changed "all" to "some".

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8586

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 237–8
Summary:

Dionaea plants have arrived. Just ready to observe some points in their structure.

Has Murray sent Expression book?

JDH’s particulars about Owen, Ayrton and Co. ("a nice firm") amused CD much.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8587F

From:
John Scott
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Oct 1872
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence Vol. 156, Indian letters, Calcutta Botanic Garden II 1860–1900, f. 1087)
Summary:

Thanks Hooker and Darwin for the money to emigrate to India to work.

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