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To H. N. Ridley   16 April [1877]

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Thanks for Saxifraga. CD had shown in Insectivorous plants [pp. 345–7] that this genus had some powers of absorption.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:  16 Apr [1877]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–81: f. 43)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10931

To H. N. Ridley   28 November 1878

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Does not think sermon by E. B. Pusey [see 11763] is worth a reply. HNR may quote CD as saying that Pusey is "mistaken in imagining that I wrote the Origin with any relation whatever to Theology". Pusey’s attack will be powerless to retard belief in evolution.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Nicholas Ridley
Date:  28 Nov 1878
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–1951, HNR/2/1/2: f. 42)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11766
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