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To Gustaf Retzius   28 August 1879

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CD is honoured to receive the magnificent work Finska Kranier (1878).

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:  28 Aug 1879
Classmark:  Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 35)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12203A

To Gustaf Retzius   2 October 1879

Summary

CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:  2 Oct 1879
Classmark:  Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 37)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12245A

From Gustaf Retzius   3 October 1879

Summary

Declines invitation to Down, having heard from Haeckel of CD’s poor health.

Working on vertebrate organ of hearing from fishes to man.

Unsuccessful at getting exotic batrachians and reptiles in London.

Author:  Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Oct 1879
Classmark:  DAR 176: 123
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12246
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