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To Nature [before 20 March 1879]
Summary
Comments on a letter from Fritz Müller [11839] and particularly on the subject of the disappearance of certain structures in organisms. FM’s explanation deserves serious consideration.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 20 Mar 1879] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 20 March 1879, pp. 462–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11945 |
To Nature 16 December 1879
Summary
Reports information sent by E. Schulte [12254] on the colours of the male Diadema bolina.
Discusses extent to which consciousness came into play in the origin of certain instincts, including sexual display.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | Nature, 8 January 1880, p. 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12359 |
To Nature 15 December [1879]
Summary
CD has repeated a test of whether hybrids of the common and Chinese goose are fertile inter se. Reports his success, and comments on its significance for the theory of descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 15 Dec [1879] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 1 January 1880, p. 207 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12391 |
To Nature [before 27 March 1879]
Summary
In reply to a query [in Nature 19 (1879): 433] CD reports that vessels full of water were kept on the deck of a ship to discourage rats from gnawing holes in the ship’s water casks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 27 Mar 1879] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 27 March 1879, p. 481 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8826 |
