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DCP-LETT-3094

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
20 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (9–10 July 2018, lot 374)
Summary:

Comments on LH’s "Anniversary Address of the President", [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 17 (1861): xxxi–lxxii]. Notes LH’s comments on metamorphism, antiquity of man, and the Bible. Thanks him for his remarks on Origin.

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DCP-LETT-3265

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Reay Greene
Date:
24 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 December 1965)
Summary:

Thanks for gift of treatise on Coelenterata [? Manual of the sub-kingdom Coelenterata (1861)]. "… I was but lately wishing to read some treatise up to the present mark, on these animals. I have cut the pages & can clearly see that your work will much interest & instruct me".

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13770J

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Dec [1861-8]
Source of text:
Dr Jeremy J. C. Mallinson (private collection): sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 11 December 2017, lot 50
Summary:

Thanks for information on inheritance of mental peculiarities in cats.

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