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To J. R. Martin   15 September 1871

Summary

Buys ten shares in the Artizans, Labourers, & General Dwellings Co.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Royle Martin
Date:  15 Sept 1871
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.403)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7943

To A. D. Bartlett   15 September 1871

Summary

CD questions ADB on the mode of feeding of geese and on the existence of variations in the structure of the bill; is trying to trace gradations in structure and habits.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Abraham Dee Bartlett
Date:  15 Sept 1871
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7944

From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin   15 September 1871

Summary

His mother very ill.

Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.

Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.

Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:  15 Sept 1871
Classmark:  DAR 103: 83–84
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7945

From W. W. Reade   15 September 1871

Summary

Believes CD will not consider him a good Darwinian since he accepts natural selection only as a secondary law.

Author:  William Winwood Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Sept 1871
Classmark:  DAR 176: 48
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7947

From H. Marval   15 September 1871

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Summary

Observations on behaviour of spiders in Astrakhan and Turkestan.

Author:  H. Marval
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Sept 1871
Classmark:  DAR 89: 77–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7948