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To John Tyndall   8 March [1871]

Summary

Thanks JT for his kindness to Ogle.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Tyndall
Date:  8 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 261.8: 11 (EH 88205949)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7554

To John Murray   8 March [1871]

Summary

Asks what his profits on the reprints of Descent will be when half have been sold.

Good reviews in Saturday Review and Pall Mall Gazette;

contemptuous one as usual in Athenæum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  8 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 222–3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7555

To Arthur Nicols   [8–10 March 1871]

Summary

The information about the phascolarctos [koala] is very surprising, and he will preserve AM’s note.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:  [8, 9 or 10] Mar 1871
Classmark:  Nicols 1883, p. 74
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7555F

From John Tyndall   8 March [1871]

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Summary

Has seen Ogle. His subject [olfactory nerve tissue and absorption of odours] has often occupied JT’s attention.

Author:  John Tyndall
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 106: C8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7556

From Alphonse de Candolle   8 March 1871

Summary

Thanks for Descent.

Reveals that it is his own family that has the movable scalp.

The Franco-Prussian war has held up the publication of the 17th and last volume of the Prodromus.

Author:  Alphonse de Candolle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 161: 16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7557