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From William Johnson   5 March 1871

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Reports case of apparent consciousness of complicity in an elephant.

Believes that Darwinism is applicable to Greek language.

Author:  William Johnson; William Cory
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 159: 140
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7547

To Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen   5 March [1871]

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Thanks for letter [7533] and the interesting notes. Even more interesting is HHHvZ’s case of the De Haas family.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:  5 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7548
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Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…

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  • … by the cavities formed by this animal.—’ (DAR 31.2: 305). He gave a detailed description and …

Saint Helena

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Curious geological history

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  • … Talks of his five days working on the geology of Saint Helena, of meeting the astronomer John …

Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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  • … to J. H. Gilbert, 12 January 1882 ). In Earthworms , p. 305, Darwin had remarked on the …
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