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DCP-LETT-7634

From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 228
Summary:

Answers to CD’s queries will take time. CD may not be aware of the influence of accommodation on the diameter of the pupil of the eye. Parrots, for example, contract or dilate the pupil independently of amount of light [see Expression, p. 304]. Sends his book on the subject [On the anomalies of accommodation and refraction of the eye (1864)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7637

From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 82
Summary:

Note on errata in first volume of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7641

From:
Philip Brookes Mason
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 72–3
Summary:

More details on children with hairy backs;

reasons for greater mortality rate of male children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7642

From:
James Murray Fleming
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 134
Summary:

Discusses breeding fancy pigeons from the wild blue rock-dove.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7643

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 314
Summary:

Sends scraps of information. Everything he has sent is unreservedly at CD’s disposal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7645

From:
John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 170, DAR 88: 165–6
Summary:

Questions CD’s attribution of a sense of beauty to animals and his use of natural selection to explain phenomena JM feels it more appropriate to describe as social selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7648

From:
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 133
Summary:

Many thanks for copy of Descent.

Would like to visit CD when he comes to England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7649

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29–31 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 324
Summary:

On the power of concentration to influence body organs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1940

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 March 1871
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B98-99
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 215
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 259-260]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4103

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15] [March] [1871]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B102
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • British Library, The: Add. 46434 f. 216
Summary:

Brief comment on Bugis ethnic group and their similarity to ethnic Malays.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7547

From:
William Johnson; William Cory
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 140
Summary:

Reports case of apparent consciousness of complicity in an elephant.

Believes that Darwinism is applicable to Greek language.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7605F

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 44)
Summary:

Is delighted at the sale of Descent. What CD says about her help pleases her very much and the proposed gift as a memorial will be very precious to her. Is looking forward to seeing the family in London. Comments on a letter comparing CD's appearance to an ape. Is surprised CD has had no effect on Wallace: 'It seems to me his mind can’t be so clear as u used to think it'. Has worked out why she is dissatisfied with T. H. Huxley's essay ‘On the physical basis of life’ (T. H. Huxley 1869).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7644

From:
Anne Henslow; Anne Barnard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 42
Summary:

On reading Descent was reminded of having seen, on a visit to an idiot asylum with her father [J. S. Henslow], a woman with long pointed ears.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7624

From:
Maria Burnley Hume; Maria Burnley Gubbins; Maria Burnley Bathoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 31–6
Summary:

Anecdotal comments on various sections of Descent:

Red Indians erecting their ears;

reasoning in a pet antelope, stag deer, and mongoose;

use of foot as prehensile organ by carpenters in India.

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