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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998)
Summary:

Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic Harrison
Date:
1 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.392)
Summary:

Discusses his concept of beauty. "I daresay I have made too much of natural selection".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
Date:
[after 1 Apr 1871?]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (3 March 2004)
Summary:

Protests against FJW making the struggle for existence still more odious by calling it ‘selfish competition’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
5 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 15
Summary:

Discusses loss of voluntary movement of ears in man and monkey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Le Couteur
Date:
6 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 106
Summary:

Is honoured to hear from JLC and would welcome the communication of any facts that he cares to send him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 381, Woolner 1917, p. 288
Summary:

Asks TW to persuade painters to observe how far down body blush extends on models.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 336
Summary:

Thanks for information about blushing of idiots.

Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".

Thanks for photographs.

Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.

Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Prescott Knight
Date:
8 Apr 1871
Source of text:
University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center (Heineman [Album] I, leaf 30)
Summary:

Formally declines dinner invitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louisa Stevenson
Date:
8 Apr 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.6414)
Summary:

Agrees to have his or Emma Darwin’s name added to the General Committee for securing medical education to women.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
9 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Boston Society of Natural History (papers at the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Summary:

Thanks for information on colour differences in sexes of Lemur.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
9 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 337
Summary:

Asks JC-B to read CD’s MS on confusion of mind, which often or generally accompanies blushing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
12 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 338
Summary:

Discusses blushing. CD believes confusion of mind alone can account for it. Sends MS for JC-B’s comments and corrections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
13 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 11 (EH 88205909)
Summary:

Reports further observations on contraction of platysma. Has been assisted by J. Wood. [See Expression, pp. 302, 303.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 220–1)
Summary:

Has no idea who wrote the Times review [of Descent]. Writer has no knowledge of science and "seems a windbag full of metaphysics & classics".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
14 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/30)
Summary:

Reports safe arrival of rabbits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rae Thomson (George) Fraser
Date:
14 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 297
Summary:

Cannot provide comment on GF’s paper for publication. Hopes GF will publish in Nature. Will consider his remarks when revising book [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Date:
14 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 410
Summary:

Comments on JM’s review of Descent, vol. 2 [Pall Mall Gaz. 13 (1871): 1358–9].

Mistake CD made "in speaking of greatest happiness as the foundation of morals" is unintelligible to CD. Discusses J. S. Mill’s view of moral feelings as natural. Discusses basis of conscience.

Glad to read remarks on hive-bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Leland Balch
Date:
15 Apr 1871
Source of text:
New York World , 8 May 1871
Summary:

Thanks for the report of CLB’s lecture about Descent to the New York Liberal Club on 3 March 1871.

Sends four photographs of himself for the sculptor J. W. A. MacDonald.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Newenham Hoare
Date:
16 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Stephen R. Marzilli (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for the information about the passages in Xenophon and Horace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project