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From J. V. Carus   26 February 1877

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Is unconvinced that correction in Cross and self-fertilisation requested by CD [see 10852] should be made. Asks CD to reconsider.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Feb 1877
Classmark:  DAR 161: 107
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10870

From O. Dill   26 February 1877

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Encloses his translation of a draft letter from his friend Franz von Rekowsky [see 10855], who is German Consular Secretary at Messina.

Author:  O. Dill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Feb 1877
Classmark:  DAR 176: 119
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10871

To ?   26 February 1877

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Acknowledges receipt of a publication from a German author. Hopes that the German will not be too difficult to understand in an "important & abstruse" subject.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  26 Feb 1877
Classmark:  eBay (September 2001)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10871A
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2.26 Linnean Society medal

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< Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the greatest event’ in its whole history, which had occurred on 1 July 1858: the presentation by Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker of papers by Darwin and Alfred Russel…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In 1908 the Linnean Society celebrated the jubilee of ‘the …

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Glories of a Brazilian forest

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  • … Describes his first encouter with a tropical forest and recieves geological information and …

Richard Matthews

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Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…

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  • … time to save his life’, Darwin recorded (Darwin 1845, p. 226). Matthews was back on board the …

The evolution of honeycomb

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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…

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  • … a structure like that of the honey-bee ( Origin , p. 226). Further, there were advantages to a …