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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[7 March 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 619
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Will write again to Tyndall about odours.
Asks for the circumstances under which WO saw a man arrested for murder; quotes from notes he made from WO’s conversation [Expression, p. 294].
Also would like to quote WO on the expression of resignation by persons about to undergo serious operations [Expression, p. 271].
Ogle wants very much to meet JT.
Referring to CD’s passage on monkeys’ acquiring taste for tea, coffee, and tobacco, AN tells of three monkeys he kept in Australia that developed strong taste for rum and smoking tobacco without being taught in any way [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 7 n.].