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To H. N. Moseley   5 November 1876

Summary

Thanks for Japanese book and for HNM’s papers on observations made during Challenger voyage.

Would be pleased if HNM visited him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:  5 Nov 1876
Classmark:  Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 7)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10663

To H. N. Moseley   22 November [1876]

Summary

Thanks for Japanese books, and papers by HNM.

Comments on Peripatus.

Not disappointed at what William Thomson says about evolution.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:  22 Nov [1876]
Classmark:  Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10685

From H. N. Moseley   3 November 1876

Summary

Sends a Japanese book illustrating the expression of emotions.

Author:  Henry Nottidge Moseley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 171: 254
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10661

From H. N. Moseley   7 November 1876

Summary

Accepts invitation to Down for 17 or 18 November.

Author:  Henry Nottidge Moseley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Nov 1876
Classmark:  DAR 171: 255
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10665

From H. N. Moseley   [after 17 November 1876]

Summary

Finds he does not have a duplicate of the Japanese natural history book. Sends other volumes of grotesque pictures.

He can show F. W. Hutton erred in calling Peripatus novae zelandiae self-fertilising; suspects J. F. Bullar has made a similar error on parasitic Isopoda. They both mistook spermatophores for testes.

Author:  Henry Nottidge Moseley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 17 Nov 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 253
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10678
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