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To G. J. Romanes   21 September [1878]

Summary

Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  21 Sept [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.548)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11699

To W. C. Williamson   21 September [1878]

Summary

Thanks him for plant specimens.

Asks about sowing Drosera seeds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Crawford Williamson
Date:  21 Sept [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11700

From J. V. Carus   21 September 1878

Summary

Inquires about a rumour that CD or Francis Darwin is preparing a new book on the "Power of inheritance".

Tells CD of his new periodical: Zoologische Anzeiger.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Sept 1878
Classmark:  DAR 161: 112
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11701

To Frederick Howlett   21 September [1878]

Summary

Cannot explain the peculiarities of the blood corpuscles of the Camelidae; maybe similarity between camels and ostriches arises from adaptation rather than common ancestry.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Frederick Howlett
Date:  21 Sept [1878]
Classmark:  William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 22, January 2018, item 20)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11701F