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From J. V. Carus   15 March 1874

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Proposal to collect all of CD’s works in a German edition. Asks CD’s opinion and suggests an outline of volumes.

Lists German sales of various volumes.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 161: 93
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9363

From Alfred Newton   15 March 1874

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Thanks CD for his opinion on egging. Despite the intensity of the practice sufficient eggs always remain to carry on the breed.

Author:  Alfred Newton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 172: 51
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9364
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3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo

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< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers …

2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM

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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…

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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 301. 36.  p. 315. This sentence also appears in Origin …
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