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To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 29 August 1863]
Summary
On the cruelty of setting steel traps to catch vermin. Requests suggestions for putting an end to the practice. [This item is mentioned in Correspondence 11: 781 n.6. (Appendix IX)]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 29 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 29 August 1863, pp. 821–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4282 |
From John Brodie Innes 29 August [1863]
Summary
Duke of Argyll has been dubbed "Duke Darwinii" by papers.
Large number of toads have been found in railway cuttings; wishes a scientific observer had taken pains to explain where they came from.
Comments on Scottish schools and on the morals of the adult poor.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4283 |
From Hugh Falconer 29 August 1863
Summary
HF will send E. Suess’s paper [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math–nat. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31] which deals directly with natural selection.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4284 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
