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DCP-LETT-8126

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: A42–3
Summary:

Gives his account of H. M. Butler’s apparently inherited habit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8129

From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 121–7
Summary:

Discussion of H. Spencer’s views on the origin of music.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8660

From:
Armand de Watteville
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 40
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8715F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 6
Summary:

Sends abstract, and will bring book on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8088F

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 2 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 42)
Summary:

Summarises her theory about expression in music.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8100

From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 261
Summary:

Thanks CD for papers he sent his wife. They will help her pass her time as an invalid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8113

From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 33
Summary:

Describes fly-catching activity of Drosera longifolia.

Experiments on Papilio asterias; sex of adult determined by length of larval feeding time.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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