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DCP-LETT-8122G

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 48)
Summary:

Sends three sheets but keeps one. Suggests looking at a curved field on the way to Orpington.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8123

From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 25
Summary:

Action of earthworms and weather on surface soil of old earthworks and fortifications.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8124

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 64
Summary:

Varying depth of top-soil in a ridge-and-furrow field with a depression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8125

From:
Erasmus Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 5
Summary:

After reading Descent sends two instances of men and animals using the same muscles to express similar emotional states.

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DCP-LETT-8125F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Archibald Geikie
Date:
30 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 185: 133
Summary:

Is obliged for valuable letter [see 8123] and encloses queries about the manner of gradual obliteration of ridges or furrows in old pasture lands in various parts of England.

Gives details of his experiment to test his observations of the downward flow of worm-casts.

Refers to [Lyon] Playfair, [A. C.] Ramsay, and AG’s edition of [J. B.] Jukes, [A student’s manual of geology, 3d ed., 1872].

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DCP-LETT-8126

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: A42–3
Summary:

Gives his account of H. M. Butler’s apparently inherited habit.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8129

From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 121–7
Summary:

Discussion of H. Spencer’s views on the origin of music.

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DCP-LETT-8660

From:
Armand de Watteville
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 40
Summary:

Gives publication date for J. C. Lavater, L’Art de connaître les hommes, 1806–9, edited by J. L. Moreau. The first four volumes appeared in 1806.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8715F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 6
Summary:

Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8088F

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 42)
Summary:

Summarises her theory about expression in music.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8089

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
2 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 35
Summary:

Sends MS chapter on voice from Expression to HL for examination.

Agrees with R. B. Litchfield about Herbert Spencer’s views on speech and music.

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DCP-LETT-8098F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
Date:
6 Dec 1871
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 88953/4)
Summary:

Sends a copy of Orchids for his wife, T. M. Story-Maskelyne, and a few other items she may wish to have.

Climbing Plants may be purchased at Williams and Norgate; he has no clean copies.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8100

From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 261
Summary:

Thanks CD for papers he sent his wife. They will help her pass her time as an invalid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8110

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
19 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 387)
Summary:

Asks FW to thank F. P. Cobbe for her liberal offer, but the differences [between Descent and Cobbe’s review "Darwinism in morals", Theol. Rev. 33 (1871): 167–92] are too fundamental to be reconciled.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8113

From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 33
Summary:

Describes fly-catching activity of Drosera longifolia.

Experiments on Papilio asterias; sex of adult determined by length of larval feeding time.

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DCP-LETT-8134

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373)
Summary:

Sends MS of section on voice as a means of expression [Expression, pp. 86–93]. CD is dissatisfied with it – wishes he could avoid the subject.

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