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To Alphonse de Candolle 2 November [1872]
Summary
Thanks for AdeC’s Histoire des sciences [1873].
Sends a copy of Expression.
His health keeps him weak; he dreads grappling with the fearful subject of variation [in nature]
so he is working up some observations in botanical physiology to publish with his old papers on climbing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1872] |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8593 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 11 December 1872
Summary
Thanks AdeC for great pleasure his new book [Histoire des sciences (1873)] has given him. Comments on several of the essays.
When AdeC backs up Asa Gray in saying all instincts are congenital habits, CD must protest.
Asks several questions about butterflies of the Alps discussed on p. 322 [of Histoire].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Date: | 11 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8672 |
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| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
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| Candolle, Alphonse de | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
