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DCP-LETT-7780

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
30 May 1871
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 72–73)
Summary:

Thanks JVC for corrections for Descent. Index, which is too full, was hurried at the end.

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DCP-LETT-7781

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
30 May [1871]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/59)
Summary:

Thanks AN for facts and corrections [for Descent].

The case of the gull must come out [Descent 2: 108 n. 9]. "Oh Lord, how difficult accuracy is!"

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DCP-LETT-7880

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
24 May [1871]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 69)
Summary:

Cannot explain why moths fly into candle flames and birds against lighthouses. Has felt it was just curiosity which attracted them.

CD does believe dogs have some sense of humour.

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DCP-LETT-7744

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
8 May 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 289–90)
Summary:

Sends photographs he intends to use in Expression and asks for estimates of cost per thousand of each process [Woodburytype and Heliotype] suggested by RC and for different numbers of photos on each plate.

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DCP-LETT-7773

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
28 May [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 280–2)
Summary:

More discussion of the illustrations for Expression.

A Swedish naturalist [G. Lindström] has asked to translate the Journal of researches.

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