From:
Archibald Geikie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 25
Summary:
Action of earthworms and weather on surface soil of old earthworks and fortifications.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Action of earthworms and weather on surface soil of old earthworks and fortifications.
Varying depth of top-soil in a ridge-and-furrow field with a depression.
After reading Descent sends two instances of men and animals using the same muscles to express similar emotional states.
Gives his account of H. M. Butler’s apparently inherited habit.
Discussion of H. Spencer’s views on the origin of music.
Gives publication date for J. C. Lavater, L’Art de connaître les hommes, 1806–9, edited by J. L. Moreau. The first four volumes appeared in 1806.
Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.