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DCP-LETT-10245

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
7 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/19)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s paper ["A theory of heredity"]. Finds essay difficult to understand. Objects that FG’s theory conflicts with phenomenon of use and disuse. Conflicts also with rarity of bud-variations in nature.

Says he has ordered FG’s article ["The history of twins", Fraser’s Mag. 92 (1875): 566–76; revised in J. Anthropol. Inst. 5 (1876): 391–406].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10246

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 65
Summary:

Thanks CD for Climbing plants and Insectivorous plants.

Discusses his research on phylogeny. Results described in "Die Gastrula und die Eifurchung der Tiere" [Jena. Z. Naturw. 9 (1875): 402–508].

Describes newly discovered coral.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1232

From:
Scott, C. P.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
7 November 1875
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1900
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10248

From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 180: 19
Summary:

Thanks for 2d edition of Climbing plants and for CD’s recognition of HdeV’s two essays on the subject [Climbing plants, pp. v–vi, 9 n., 22, 160]. Cause of spiral growth of tendrils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10247

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: B123
Summary:

Thanks for Climbing plants [2d ed.].

Is reading proofs [of Geographical distribution (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1965

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 November 1875
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B123
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 258
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 285]
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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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