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DCP-LETT-11677

From:
Andrew Leith Adams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 8
Summary:

Thanks for letter on ALA’s qualifications for vacant chair of natural history.

Reports observations on deer which have larger left antlers than right, possibly for protection of heart.

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DCP-LETT-11678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Wilhelm Julius (Wilhelm) Behrens
Date:
29 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv – Standort Wolfenbüttel (VI Hs 11 nr. 12)
Summary:

Thanks him for ["Beiträge zur Geschichte der Bestäubungstheorie", in Program der Königlichen Gewerbeschule zu Elberfeld, 1877/78 (1879)]. Agrees with appreciation of Carl Sprengel’s work. Rejoices how highly GWJB appreciates Hermann Müller.

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FVM-78-08-29

From:
James Chalmers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 August 1878
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11679

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1878
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 77
Summary:

Thanks for comments on his lecture ["Nervous system of Medusa"]

and for information [about J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].

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