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From Edmund and Charles Langton to S. E. Wedgwood   [after 9 November 1868]

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Some observations by EL on moths visiting flowers.

Author:  Edmund Langton; Charles Langton
Addressee:  Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:  [after 9 Nov 1868]
Classmark:  DAR 82: A95
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5756

From Ernst Haeckel   9 November 1868

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Thanks CD for comments [on Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts].

Comments on Goethe and Kant as early evolutionists.

Describes birth of his son. Mentions child’s "atavisms".

Author:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Nov 1868
Classmark:  DAR 166: 50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6452

From Edmund Langton to S. E. Wedgwood   9 November [1868]

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Observations on a Sphinx moth; attraction of dark spots.

Author:  Edmund Langton
Addressee:  Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:  9 Nov [1868]
Classmark:  DAR 82: A93–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6453

From Albert Gaudry   9 November 1868

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Asks permission to dedicate to CD his book on the fossil animals and geology of Attica [Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique (1862–7)]. CD will find much in it relating to the "filiation" of species, genera, and families.

Author:  Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 Nov 1868
Classmark:  DAR 165: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6454