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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Harvard University Library
Date:
2 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library
Summary:

Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 37)
Summary:

CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/61)
Summary:

Discusses CGS’s account of Pellew Islands. Still believes atolls and barrier reefs in Pacific indicate subsidence. But cases like Pellew Islands, if frequent, would make his conclusions of little value.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project