From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
12 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 22)
Summary:
Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.
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.]
Discusses blushing. CD believes confusion of mind alone can account for it. Sends MS for JC-B’s comments and corrections.
Has been unable to locate [W. L.] Newman's tables (astronomical) at the R.A.S. Would he please send further details.