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DCP-LETT-10792

From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 120
Summary:

Sends letter clipped from Manchester Courier on CD’s accounting for scarcity of holly berries by scarcity of bees, and writer’s explanation of latter.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10794

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B97–8
Summary:

[Samuel] Laurence, having painted the Prince of Wales, now wants to paint another great man; will use a photograph but would like a ten minute interview with CD to mix his tints.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10796

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arnold Dietrich Wilhelm (Wilhelm) Rimpau
Date:
16 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 147: 304
Summary:

Thanks for essays ["Das Aufschiessen der Runkelrüben", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. Berlin 5 (1876): 31–45; "Die Züchtung neuer Getreide Varietäten", ibid 6 (1877): 193–233]. Surprised about Beta vulgaris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10793

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
16 Jan 1877
Source of text:
Bates College, Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
Summary:

Has received from the region of the River Uruguay in S. America "a wonderful nest" of a bird called "El boyero", said to perch on the back of cattle and horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10795

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 36
Summary:

Is writing Diseases of women [1877]; sends some proof-sheets for criticism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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