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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 8
Summary:

Will finish last chapter (except recapitulation) tomorrow.

Pleased with JDH’s response to geographical distribution chapter;

CD disagrees with Lyell’s view that glacial epoch is connected with position of continents.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1859
Source of text:
DAR 170: 22
Summary:

Embryology of Diptera. Development of insects; metamorphosis. JL feels all insects go through metamorphosis but that in some of them, part takes place before birth.

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Darwin Correspondence Project