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From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 118
Summary:

Suggests hopping lizards may show the connection between reptiles and birds as proposed by Huxley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 12 July 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 114
Summary:

JLGK’s public advocacy of Darwinism brings him into numerous arguments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 119
Summary:

Sends paper to be published in Sydney Mail on primitive man.

Sends lists of earth [castings] made by worms [see Earthworms, p. 127],

and a catalogue of Australian Lepidoptera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 120
Summary:

Proud of CD’s good opinion of him. He worked in a merchant’s office in Germany for many years. Emigrated to Australia as a gold-digger and took up natural history after he was 30.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 1 Nov 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 115
Summary:

Describes the behaviour of a pet donkey and pig.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 121
Summary:

Many insects visit Eucalyptus flowers as long as there is pollen to be seen. Asking his colleague, George Masters, to gather insects and flowers at Long Bay for CD.

Observations on wild New Guinea pig in captivity.

Will take CD’s advice to write a book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 169: 122
Summary:

Letter of introduction for Mr Bradley, an expert on spiders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project