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To R. F. Cooke   10 April 1881

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Asks for quick decision on publication [of Earthworms]. Does not care whether it is published on commission or on usual terms, but wants it published in a hurry. Cannot guess at sales.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:  10 Apr 1881
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 383–4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13110

From Gaston de Saporta   10 April 1881

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Sends GdeS and A. F. Marion, L’évolution du règne végétal. Les cryptogames [1881].

Author:  Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Apr 1881
Classmark:  DAR 177: 38
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13111
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4.10 'Hornet' caricature of Darwin

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< Back to Introduction Caricatures of Darwin that depicted him as a semi-ape are numerous and well known, but they marked a specific historical moment. Most date from the period following the publication of Descent of Man in 1871-2, extending through…

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  • … < Back to Introduction Caricatures of Darwin that depicted him as a semi-ape are …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … I will not pretend to say. \looseness1   Page 410, par. 1, lines 19–25, substitute for …
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