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To W. H. Dallinger   2 July 1878

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Has no doubt WHD’s experiments on mutation of lower organisms under changed conditions of life will be curious and valuable. The fact of their becoming accustomed to much higher temperatures than those to which they are adapted is very remarkable. It explains the existence of algae in hot springs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Henry Dallinger
Date:  2 July 1878
Classmark:  Dallinger 1887, p. 191
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11587

From W. H. Dallinger   29 June 1878

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The results of WHD’s long series of investigations of effects of steadily and slowly altered environment on putrefactive organisms "palpably demonstrate [CD’s] great doctrine".

Author:  William Henry Dallinger
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 June 1878
Classmark:  DAR 162: 34
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11576
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