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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Corrects CD on his assertion that the platysma myoides "cannot voluntarily be brought into action" [Descent 1: 19].
Is honoured to hear from JLC and would welcome the communication of any facts that he cares to send him.
CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.
Sexual differences in coloration in Lemur macaco.
On some errata in Descent.
Sends extracts from a statistical study giving proportion of sexes in [population of] Netherlands.
Asks TW to persuade painters to observe how far down body blush extends on models.
Thanks for information about blushing of idiots.
Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".
Thanks for photographs.
Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.
Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.
CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.
Formally declines dinner invitation.
Anecdotes about a dog and cat evidencing "a high order of instinct".
Believes CD should answer the critical article [review of Descent] in the Times [of 7 and 8 Apr].
Moral sense and moral conduct.
Agrees to have his or Emma Darwin’s name added to the General Committee for securing medical education to women.
Thanks for information on colour differences in sexes of Lemur.
Arrangements for transfer of rabbits to CD.
Asks JC-B to read CD’s MS on confusion of mind, which often or generally accompanies blushing.
Sends quotations from Xenophon and Horace pointing to sexual selection. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 29 n.]
Emotional states leading to contraction of the platysma. Contraction of skin muscles.
Thanks CD for correcting proof slips quoting CD letters to Charles Boner, though she does not agree with CD’s too short comments.
Asks CD’s opinion of a request from Loescher of Turin. Thinks Loescher should have named his translator.
Does CD know the name of the Times reviewer?
On sexual selection in butterflies. [See GF’s article in Nature 3 (1870–1): 489; also Descent (1875): 312.]
