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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

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From W. H. Flower to Otto Zacharias   17 May 1877

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Further discussion of structure of abnormal pig’s foot.

Author:  William Henry Flower
Addressee:  Otto Zacharias
Date:  17 May 1877
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.512)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10962

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  • … Mss.B.D25.512) William Henry Flower Royal College of Surgeons 17 May 1877 Otto Zacharias
  • … From W.  H.  Flower to Otto Zacharias   17 May 1877
  • … of polydactylism (see letter from Otto Zacharias, 21 April 1877 , and letter from W.  H.   …

From Otto Zacharias   21 April 1877

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Sends abnormal pig’s foot. Does abnormality occur often?

Author:  Otto Zacharias
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Apr 1877
Classmark:  DAR 184: 6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10936

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From Otto Zacharias   23 February 1877

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Was CD already convinced of evolution when he published Journal of researches?

Photograph album will be late coming.

Evolutionary magazine to appear in March under title of Kosmos.

Author:  Otto Zacharias
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Feb 1877
Classmark:  DAR 184: 5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10862

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From Otto Zacharias   7 January 1877

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Discusses publication of CD’s essays in three German popular periodicals.

Haeckel is ill.

German translation of George Darwin, "Marriage between first cousins" [1875] has sold 250 copies.

Author:  Otto Zacharias
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Jan 1877
Classmark:  DAR 184: 4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10775

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  • … From Otto Zacharias    7 January 1877
  • … DAR 184: 4 Otto Zacharias Geestemünde 7 Jan 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • Otto Zacharias, 3 June 1875 ). Zacharias had planned to call the journal Darwinia , but it eventually apppeared under the title Kosmos in April 1877. …
  • Otto Zacharias, 5 October [1876] ) Zacharias sent CD a copy of his essay review, ‘Darwin über Kreuzung und Selbstbefruchtung im Pflanzenreiche’ (Darwin on crossing and self-fertilisation in the plant kingdom; Zacharias 1877a ). CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Zacharias’s review of Cross and self fertilisation entitled ‘Darwins neuestes Werk’ appeared in Die Gegenwart , 13 January 1877, …

To Otto Zacharias   [24 February 1877]

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Thanks OZ for a "magnificent Album".

On Beagle voyage CD believed in permanence of species. Had occasional vague doubts. In autumn of 1836 saw how many facts indicated common descent of species. In 1837 opened notebook to record facts.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Otto Zacharias
Date:  [24 Feb 1877]
Classmark:  Zacharias 1882, pp. 76–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10863

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From Otto Zacharias   2 October 1876

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Can CD send sheets of Cross and self-fertilisation as previously promised? OZ writing article on subject ["Darwin über Kreuzung und Selbstbefruchtung im Pflanzenreiche", Das Ausland (1877)].

German Darwinists preparing a Darwin album with photographs of themselves as gift.

Author:  Otto Zacharias
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Oct 1876
Classmark:  DAR 184: 3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10628

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  • Otto Zacharias, 10 May 1876 . The photograph album was sent by Emil Rade (see Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877 ). …

From Otto Zacharias   19 August 1875

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Thanks for Insectivorous plants.

Describes difficulties in launching Darwinian journal.

Mentions recent criticism of evolution in Germany.

Would like to translate essay on marriage between relatives [by G. H. Darwin, see 9487].

Author:  Otto Zacharias
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Aug 1875
Classmark:  DAR 184: 2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10127

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  • Otto Zacharias, 3 June 1875 and n. 4. Although the periodical never appeared under the proposed title of Darwinia , many of the same contributors were involved in the launch of Kosmos , which first appeared in April 1877
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