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From:
Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 183
Summary:

Having just read Climbing plants, wishes CD to have enclosed pamphlets, one on cucumbers from 20 years ago, and another on movement in vegetables, also very old.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Georg Moritz (Otto) Busch
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (bMs 7)
Summary:

Thanks OB for his work on Schopenhauer [Arthur Schopenhauer. Beitrag zu einer Dogmatik der Religionslosen (1877)]

and for his remarks on bees and clover. When CD spoke, last spring, of the few seeds produced by red clover, he supposed it was due to rarity of humble-bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred James Martinelli
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 58
Summary:

Reports an annual bean plant that formed a tuber and is now growing in the second year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 241
Summary:

Criticises Herbert Spencer’s Principles of sociology, particularly for its treatment of the family, for its superficiality, and for its dependence on J. F. McLennan’s views on exogamy. Americans are coming to see Spencer’s ideas as too broad.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 June [1877]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008)
Summary:

Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project