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From G. H. Darwin   20 August 1875

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CD’s suspicions that Legrain falsified experiments on interbred rabbits are like second sight. Has sent a copy of the letter to A. H. Huth.

Henry Sidgwick and A. J. Balfour are "spiritualising" again.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Aug 1875
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 47
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10129

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  • … also Correspondence vol. 21, letter from G. H. Darwin to Emma Darwin, [before 24 November …

From J. D. Hooker   16 August 1875

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JDH reports his battle with Lord Henry Lennox over whether to locate new Herbarium on the Queen’s or public part of Garden.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Aug 1875
Classmark:  DAR 104: 36–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10120

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  • … to observe the transit of Venus (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and letter to C. E. …

To T. M. Story-Maskelyne   27 August [1875–81]

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Explains that the plant is not consuming the flies, but that they die becasue they get stuck in the flowers when fertilising them.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thereza Mary Llewelyn; Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne
Date:  27 Aug [1875-81]
Classmark:  The British Library (Add MS 88953/4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10136F

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  • … he died in April 1882. Elizabeth Darwin or Henrietta Emma Litchfield . Story-Maskelyne’s …