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To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   15 August 1873

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Thinks it would be worth while testing for electrical changes in the leaves of insectivorous plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:  15 Aug 1873
Classmark:  University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-13)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9013

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  • letter from J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, 13 August [1873] and n.  7. Burdon Sanderson was appointed the first superintendent of the Brown Animal Sanatory Institution in 1872 ( G.  Wilson 1979 , p.  172). See letter from J.   …

To Charles Lyell   4 [February 1863]

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Thanks CL for "the great book" [Antiquity of man (1863)].

Richard Owen "ought to be ostracised by every Naturalist in England".

CL’s book will "give the whole subject of change of species an enormous advance".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  4 [Feb 1863]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.287)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3967

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  • letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [23 February 1863] and n.  2; Bynum 1984 , pp.  154–8; and L.  G.  Wilson  …

To J. D. Hooker   21 [September 1862]

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Thanks for Haast’s observations. Particularly glad to get geological evidence of glacial action (in Southern Hemisphere).

Thinks Ramsay’s theory to large extent true, but thinks that in a much disturbed country some lakes would have been formed in depressions.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  21 [Sept 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 161
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3735

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  • … vol.  5, letter to J.  D. Hooker, 10 June [1855] , and L.  G.  Wilson ed.  1970, p.  53). …
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