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From Camille Dareste   18 November [1869]

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Asks CD to write a letter sponsoring him for the Chair of Comparative Physiology at Paris. There are some who do not think his work on artificial production of monstrosities belongs in physiology.

Author:  Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Nov [1869]
Classmark:  DAR 162: 45
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6994

From Roland Trimen   18 November 1869

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Thanks CD for his orchid paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56]. Comments briefly on orchids.

Discusses moths in which the wing underside is the most brightly coloured, and relates his observations on sexual selection by a moth, Syntomis.

Author:  Roland Trimen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Nov 1869
Classmark:  DAR 82: 27–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6995

To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg   18 November [1869]

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Thanks CGE for memoir on the Bacillariae of Mexico [Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys.) (1869): 1–66].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Date:  18 Nov [1869]
Classmark:  Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Nachlass Ehrenberg, Nr. 321, Brief von Charles Darwin)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6996
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