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To William Ogle   22 February 1882

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Has rarely read anything more interesting than WO’s introduction to his Aristotle translation. Had no notion what a wonderful man Aristotle was. Linnaeus and Cuvier were mere schoolboys compared to him. His ignorance on some points, as on muscles and the means of movement, is curious.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Ogle
Date:  22 Feb 1882
Classmark:  DAR 261.5: 19 (EH 88205917)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13697

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  • letter from William Ogle, 17 January 1882 ). In addition to the translation, Ogle had written an introduction, a section on the main

To William Ogle   7 July [1869]

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Comments on WO’s paper on Salvia [Pop. Sci. Rev. 8 (1869): 261–73], which he admires.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Ogle
Date:  7 July [1869]
Classmark:  DAR 261.5: 3 (EH 88205901)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6818

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  • main facts on the mechanism of fertilisation in the species had already been described, but concluded that he might still add some of his own observations (see Correspondence vol.  16, letter from William
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