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To John Smith   26 December [1867]

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CD is obliged for a note by JS on crossing the Victoria regia, just received from Hooker; encourages JS to further experiments, saying there is much to be learned on self-fertilisation of plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Smith
Date:  26 Dec [1867]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5740

From W. S. Dallas   26 December 1867

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He is vexed that CD has had to write again about the index. He has no excuse except "the nature of the work itself".

Author:  William Sweetland Dallas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 162: 8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5741
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Living and fossil cirripedia

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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…

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