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From William Ogle   17 January 1882

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Sends a translation of Aristotle’s De partibus animalium and imagines that if the old teleologist were alive CD would convince him of his errors.

Author:  William Ogle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 173: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13621

To William Ogle   17 January 1882

Summary

Thanks WO for gift of his translation [Aristotle’s De partibus animalium]. Suspects the introduction would interest him more than the text "notwithstanding that he [Aristotle] was such a wonderful old fellow".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Ogle
Date:  17 Jan 1882
Classmark:  DAR 261.5: 18 (EH 88205916)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13622

To William Ogle   22 February 1882

Summary

Has rarely read anything more interesting than WO’s introduction to his Aristotle translation. Had no notion what a wonderful man Aristotle was. Linnaeus and Cuvier were mere schoolboys compared to him. His ignorance on some points, as on muscles and the means of movement, is curious.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Ogle
Date:  22 Feb 1882
Classmark:  DAR 261.5: 19 (EH 88205917)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13697

From William Ogle   12 April 1882

Summary

A friend once "caught" an oyster while fishing, which confirms CD’s note ["On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Collected papers 2: 276–8].

Author:  William Ogle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Apr 1882
Classmark:  DAR 173: 11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13767
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