From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 22 Apr 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 55
Summary:
Expressions in attitudes of prayer and adoration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Expressions in attitudes of prayer and adoration.
Replies to CD’s letter;
inquires about CD’s intended terms for Italian translator of Descent; hopes to offer best terms herself.
Case of the reasoning bear is analogous to the elephant blowing with trunk to bring object within reach.
On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.
Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.
On ratios of the sexes in insects, and other facts relating to sexual selection.
Please thank Mr Jackson for facts about shrugging, but case not distinct enough. Gestures associated with laughter. Platysma.