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To Daniel Oliver   15 November 1871

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Is it now thought that the spongioles of rootlets secrete carbonic acid which acts on bones and rocks?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Oliver
Date:  15 Nov 1871
Classmark:  DAR 261.10: 64 (EH 88206047)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8068

From Federico Delpino   15 November 1871

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Sends paper on Artemesia.

Praise for Descent.

Has talked to St George Mivart about CD’s health.

Author:  Federico Delpino
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Nov 1871
Classmark:  DAR 162: 148
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8069

To A. W. Bennett   [before 16 November 1871]

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Discussed observations made in 1863 of Impatiens pollen and humble-bees.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred William Bennett
Date:  [before 16 Nov 1871]
Classmark:  Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 13 (1873): 152
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8303F
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4.45 'Puck' cartoon 2

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< Back to Introduction In Reason Against Unreason, a cartoon published shortly before Darwin’s death, the American humorous magazine Puck had celebrated him as the embodiment of ‘Reason’. Now, a month after his death, an imaginative drawing in the…

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4.44 'Puck' cartoon 1

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< Back to Introduction In March 1882, a month before Darwin’s death, an admiring image of him appeared in the American comic journal Puck. It was in a cartoon drawn by Joseph Keppler, Puck’s co-publisher, co-editor and chief cartoonist, titled Reason…

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