From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 7 May 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 133
Summary:
Asks whether in Slavonic races the hair of the beard and head are different colours.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
13 May [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 321
Summary:
Comments on paper by JJW ["On insects and insectivorous birds", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1869): 21–6]. JJW’s verification of A. R. Wallace’s suggestion regarding inheritance is quite a discovery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
20 May [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 322
Summary:
Asks for information about male birds migrating before females.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
22 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 327
Summary:
Thanks for MS observations on expression. Discusses hair standing on end in terror and rage. Asks JC-B to observe contraction of platysma myoides. "Your description of the grinning and exposure of the canine teeth under furious rage is excellent. I presume that you would not object to my quoting it." Asks about contraction of "grief muscles". Comments on blushing. Offers to send book by G. B. A. Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
24 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 255
Summary:
Discusses secondary hoofs in antelope and deer.
Mentions tuft of hair on turkey hen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
27 May [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 323
Summary:
Thanks for information about bird migration.
Comments on canary hybridisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hellier Baily
Date:
[10 May 1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Referee report on paper by Richard Spruce on sacs in Melastoma [see 6690]. CD says RS’s suggestions that sacs are inherited is not supported and should be deleted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
