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From:
Lionel Robert (Lionel) Ashburner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 115
Summary:

Gives examples of animal species in which adult males castrate or kill younger males.

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From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31
Summary:

Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.

Notes on echinoderms.

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From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 330
Summary:

Believes his letter of 17 Apr bears also on vol. 1 of Descent.

Ability to move ears is common in his family.

Similarity of foot of man to that of gorilla continues beyond foetal stage.

Invites CD to stay overnight if visiting the area.

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From:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[23 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 242
Summary:

Observations on expression of her dog for CD.

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From:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[2–5 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 243
Summary:

Further observations on expression of her dog.

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From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22] June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 215
Summary:

At Wallace’s suggestion he offers CD his observations on the seed-gathering habits of ants. Suggests their role in seed dispersal.

At work on the last part of his book [Contributions to the flora of Mentone (1867–71)].

Has found that Ophrys insectifera can reproduce asexually.

Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 19
Summary:

Discusses his position at Cambridge, which is apparently under threat.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Suess
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.397)
Summary:

Thanks for his election to the Austrian Imperial Academy.

Is sorry ES has suffered in health.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Bradfield
Date:
2 June [1871]
Source of text:
Doyle, New York (dealers) (8 May 2007)
Summary:

Thanks for the fact about the dog.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 8
Summary:

Discusses homologies in various animal groups.

Comments on Mivart [Genesis of species].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (December 1996)
Summary:

Comments on CVR’s book [Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri (1871)].

Discusses mimetic insects.

Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Bradfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 181–2
Summary:

Instance of a dog able to discriminate a note played out of tune. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 569.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
2 June [1871]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Thanks VOK for sending F. Körte’s book [Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke (1828)]. The passage CD wrote about [see 7735] must occur in the second edition. If VOK ever comes upon the 1829 edition, it would be of use to him.

Agrees that the Versailles army has been savagely brutal [in siege of Paris], but thinks the "Communists [Communards] have made themselves everlastingly infamous".

Contributor:
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From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 108–111
Summary:

Facts contradicting Wallace’s views on coloration of Lepidoptera.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
3 June [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 246–7)
Summary:

Is disappointed at high price, 7s 6d, being considered for the cheap edition of the Origin [6th ed.]. Has been told that, in Lancashire, workmen club together to buy the Origin.

Little chance that Expression will be done this autumn.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
3 June 1871
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/6/14)
Summary:

Acknowledges sum of £266 11s. 9d.

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 80
Summary:

Observations on habits of caribou and deer in Newfoundland.

Suggests nightingale egg coloration evolved from white to olive for protection.

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From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 162, DAR 195.1: 51
Summary:

Sends answers to CD’s queries on expression.

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From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 167: 30
Summary:

On Down parish matters.

Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 75, 75a
Summary:

Follows up CD’s observation of 13 May 1871, of a New Forest pony shedding its winter coat.

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