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To T. H. Huxley   21 September [1869]

Summary

James Orton, U. S. naturalist, has sent him a tooth from skull of a horse found in Quito, Ecuador in deposits containing Mastodon, etc. JO asked CD to send it to Owen, but, since he does not communicate with Owen, he is sending it to THH.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  21 Sept [1869]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 273)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6901

From M. T. Masters   21 September 1869

Summary

Robert Fenn exhibited potatoes at the Horticultural Society which showed general failure of graft-hybrids and provided an example of reversion to a wild Peruvian tuber resulting from cross-fertilisation.

Author:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Sept 1869
Classmark:  DAR 171: 81
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6902

To Albert Günther   21 September 1869

Summary

Sends a list of queries for AG.

Asks whether AG can supply specimens for illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes Mr Ford will do the drawings.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  21 Sept 1869
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library; DAR 82: B14–15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6903

To [?]   21 September [1869]

Summary

Thanks correspondent for sending curious facts about his cats.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  21 Sept [1869]
Classmark:  National Library of Australia (MS 760/2/571)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6952
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