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DCP-LETT-8755

From:
William Marriott Canby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 25
Summary:

At Asa Gray’s request, responds to CD’s questions about WMC’s observations on Dionaea and particularly about the size of the insects captured and the excitability of the leaves after an insect is captured.

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DCP-LETT-8754

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 102–103)
Summary:

Has no corrections for second German edition [of Expression]. Plans to bring out an improved edition in a year or two.

Thanks for reference JVC sent.

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DCP-LETT-8751F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Chapman
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Western University Archives, History of Medicine Collection, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada (A04-011-051)
Summary:

Thanks for Chapman 1873 (Chapman, John. 1873. Neuralgia and kindred diseases of the nervous system).

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DCP-LETT-8756

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 217
Summary:

He does not accept Wallace’s definition of instinct because it excludes "inherited experience", i.e., "knowledge acquired by and transmitted through ancestors".

House-flies do not seem to have an instinctive fear of trap-door spiders.

Miss Forster gives him news of CD.

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