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DCP-LETT-13806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miss Fenwick
Date:
8 Feb [1871-82]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Hay MSS Ms.44.31)
Summary:

Sends two waste sheets of MS of Descent; Miss F can cut out any portion she likes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7477

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 125
Summary:

The box of bones sent by CD has led to a series of explorations. Reports on Yorkshire cave-hunting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7478

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
8 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 333
Summary:

Will send copy of Descent.

Comments on JC-B’s MS on expression among insane. Asks about weeping in insane men. Do idiots laugh when pleased?

Thanks for photographs of insane. Asks for additional photographs.

Comments on Henry Maudsley [Body and mind (1870)].

Pointed ears in the insane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8744

From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.131
Summary:

Discusses JH's response to his comments on JH's theory of the solar corona. Discusses great difficulty of writing his planned book on sidereal astronomy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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