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DCP-LETT-10783

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Pearson 1914–30 , 2: 192
Summary:

Would like to see essay [on effects of conscription in France, see 10774]. Knows of Swiss memoir to the same effect. Author says Swiss yeomen apt to leave homestead to sickly son. Landed populations deteriorate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10782

From:
Thomas Mellard Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1877
Source of text:
University of Liverpool Library (TMR2.D.1.1)
Summary:

TMR’s address ["Geological time" (Presidential Address, 1876), Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. 3 (1878): 211–35] not yet published. Will send copy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1237

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Anne Maria Barkly (nee Pratt)
Date:
12 January 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.272-273, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10784

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
12 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 148: 348
Summary:

Comments on AW’s book [Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie (1875–6)], especially on mimicry in caterpillars.

Mentions sets of drawings of British Lepidoptera in all stages. Would AW like to see them?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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