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From Nevil Maskelyne to John Lubbock   3 December [1871]

Summary

Asks JL to obtain copies of CD’s botanical works for his wife.

Author:  Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  3 Dec [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 260
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8091

To E. S. Morse   3 December 1871

Summary

Obliged for ESM’s article ["On adaptive coloration of the Mollusca", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 14 (1870–1): 141–5]. Glad to have error corrected about protective colouring of shells.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:  3 Dec 1871
Classmark:  Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8092

To G. A. Eisen   3 December 1871

Summary

Thanks GAE for memoir on earthworms [Bidrag till Skandinaviens Oligochaetfauna (1871)]. CD by chance is just now observing "one little point in their habits". Will be happy to learn something about the places frequented by the various species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gustavus Augustus Eisen
Date:  3 Dec 1871
Classmark:  The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Manuscripts and Archives Division. (Miscellaneous papers)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8093
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