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To Albert Günther   12 February 1874

Summary

Asks AG to sign an enclosure [see 9291].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  12 Feb 1874
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (38)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9287

To Albert Günther   25 February 1874

Summary

Has given in Descent 2: 12, an account from AG of the brushes on the sides of Monacanthus; has now learned of brush-like scales on the males of Mallotus. Asks whether the two genera are related.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  25 Feb 1874
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (38)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9315

To Albert Günther   [c. 2 March 1874]

Summary

Encloses a circular [9384?] to explain the predicament he is in. Asks whether AG can get anyone at the British Museum, other than Owen, to join J. E. Gray in signing.

Believes the account of the Mallotus in American Naturalist [5 (1871): 119] is trustworthy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  [c. 2 Mar 1874]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (39)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9383

From Albert Günther   14 February 1874

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Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 97: C39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9291

From Albert Günther   26 February 1874

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Comments on several points in Descent,

doubts facts about Monacanthus brushes

and the two Cyprinidae males attending the female when spawning.

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 89: 26–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9316

From Albert Günther   28 April 1874

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Thanks for recent edition of CD’s Journal of researches.

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Apr 1874
Classmark:  DAR 165: 255
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9432
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