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DCP-LETT-401

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[Feb 1838]
Source of text:
William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 20, April 2014)
Summary:

The publishers [of Zoology] have agreed to 50 plates [for Birds]. Asks JG to decide which are most worthy of being done. Also asks him to see whether Bayfield will undertake [to colour] the birds (and quadrupeds) at something under 5d each.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5851F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 19, 2013)
Summary:

Asks that Gray forward a letter to J. T. Rothrock. Variation is selling well. Nearly all chapters were at least partially written before Origin was published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11701F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 22, January 2018, item 20)
Summary:

Cannot explain the peculiarities of the blood corpuscles of the Camelidae; maybe similarity between camels and ostriches arises from adaptation rather than common ancestry.

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