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DCP-LETT-9421

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 35
Summary:

Sends Descent material. Is staggered by CD’s power of marshalling facts and his conciseness and clearness of thought. The only fault he finds is some slight want of conciseness of diction.

He feels CD’s power more now "that I quail before the thought of arranging the few paltry facts I’ve got about those d––d cousins".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9422

From:
Eliza Meteyard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 171: 163
Summary:

The memorial failed last autumn. She asks for CD’s signature again so that it may be presented now that there is a new Government.

Her [Wedgwood] Handbook is now in press.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9422A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Nature , 11 June 1874, pp. 102–3
Summary:

FM gives his own observations of leaf-cutting ants, which support those of Thomas Belt in his book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1873)]. [See 9223.] These ants feed only upon the fungus that grows upon the leaves that they carry to their nests.

He has caught a moth of the Glaucopidæ that when touched emitted a cloud of snow-white wool.

Observations on the stingless bees of Brazil.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4069

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Wilkinson Wallis
Date:
20 April 1874
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 270.1: 5
  • Wallis, T. W. (1899). In: Autobiography of Thomas Wilkinson Wallis, Sculptor in Wood. Louth, UK: J. W. Goulding & Son. [pp. 181-182]
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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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