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To Francisco de Arruda Furtado   12 September 1881

Summary

Hooker would be very glad to see the mountain plants Fd’AF has collected.

Hooker says huge cypress trunks have been found buried in the ground [in the Azores]; the site needs to be described and investigated. CD suggests collecting earth from same bed to see whether any seeds have remained viable.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francisco de Arruda Furtado
Date:  12 Sept 1881
Classmark:  Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0022)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13331

From John Harmer   12 September 1881

Summary

Observed a beetle carrying a long worm.

Author:  John Harmer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Sept 1881
Classmark:  DAR 166: 104
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13332

From G. H. Haydon   12 September 1881

Summary

Sending some Hudson’s Bay mosquitoes because of a letter of CD’s quoted in Evening Standard, 5 Sept 1881.

Author:  George Henry Haydon
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Sept 1881
Classmark:  DAR 166: 124
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13333

From T. H. Huxley   12 September 1881

Summary

Hopes Anthony Rich will keep to his intention of leaving his fortune to CD, despite CD’s increased wealth.

His BAAS address at York in Nature ["The rise and progress of palaeontology" 24 (1881): 452–5].

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Sept 1881
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 215)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13348