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From Ernst Haeckel   21 December 1871

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Comments on Die Kalkschwämme [1872].

A Franciscan prior, Padre Buona-Grazia, agrees with human descent.

His trip to Dalmatia.

German reception of Descent.

Mentions current work.

Author:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Dec 1871
Classmark:  DAR 166: 56
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8114

To William Ogle   21 December [1871]

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Thanks WO for a paper and for information about platysma. Has asked several persons to observe the muscle during a shivering fit, but all have failed.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Ogle
Date:  21 Dec [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 261.5: 12 (EH 88205910)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8115

To A. C. Ramsay   21 December [1871]

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Requests further information on subsidence of flagstones because of action of worms.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:  21 Dec [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 261.9: 6 (EH 88205979)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8116
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Species and varieties

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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…

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Living and fossil cirripedia

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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…

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  • … Darwin published four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on …
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