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From J. V. Carus   19 March 1876

Summary

Insectivorous plants is out

and Climbing plants is at the printer’s.

He is now at work on the geological writings.

Thinks all of CD’s papers extremely interesting "for the spirit and the method".

Cites some misprints in Climbing plants.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Mar 1876
Classmark:  DAR 161: 103
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10419

To J. G. Fenwick   19 March 1876

Summary

"The longer I live the more I come to believe in inheritance. I have some ""orderlings"" in my own composition, and I wish I had transmitted more of it to my own offspring."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John George Fenwick
Date:  19 Mar 1876
Classmark:  University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Rare and Special Books Collection of the University Libraries
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10420

From J. C. E. Kollmann   19 March 1876

Summary

Thanks CD for copy of Variation in name of Anthropologische Gesellschaft, Munich.

Dr Born has demonstrated that all Batrachia and their relatives the Anura have six toes.

Sends short paper on intelligence of cephalopods ["Die Cephalopoden in der zoologischen Station des Dr Dohrn", Z. Wiss. Zool. 26 (1876): 1–23].

Author:  Julius Constantin Ernst Kollmann
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Mar 1876
Classmark:  DAR 169: 50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10421