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To Otto Zacharias   26 April 1877

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CD has sent the pig’s foot to William Henry Flower to examine.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Otto Zacharias
Date:  26 Apr 1877
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.510)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10941

From C. G. Semper   26 April 1877

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Explains why he did not add his photograph to the album presented by German naturalists to CD. Instead he wishes to dedicate to CD his work on the vertebrate-type eyes on the back of some Mollusca. [Enclosed is a MS introduction to this work, Über Sehorgane von Typus der Wirbelthieraugen auf dem Rücken von Schnecken.].

Author:  Carl Gottfried Semper
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Apr 1877
Classmark:  DAR 177: 137
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10942
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4.26 Christmas card caricature, monkeys

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< Back to Introduction Sem’s Christmas card with a caricature of Darwin was not the only thing of its kind. A sale catalogue of 2009, Charles Robert Darwin . . . One Hundred and Two Items, included the front leaf of a greetings card inscribed in…

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  • … < Back to Introduction Sem’s Christmas card with a caricature of Darwin was not the …

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. 466. 52.  p. 426. 53.  p. 427. This substitution …