Encourages Forbes to publish his geological observations on Chile.
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Encourages Forbes to publish his geological observations on Chile.
Any notes on idea of human beauty by natives who have little association with Europeans would interest CD.
Also influence of females on males’ choice.
Sends copy of Queries about expression.
Asks for DF’s observations on the Aymara Indians for use in writing manuscript [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 34–5].
Thanks DF for proofs of his paper on Aymara Indians.
Inquires about the effect of turf covering on the rate of disintegration of rock.
Glacial action in the Andes.
Origin of Chilean sheep.
Varieties of S. American horses.
Blushing in South American Indians.
Hairlessness of Aymaras and Quechuas. [See Descent 2: 322–3.]
DF’s opinion of Gustav Jenzsch’s book [Mikroskopische Flora und Fauna (1868)]. Encloses extract of a letter from Ferdinand Zirkel also mentioning Jenzsch’s work.
Has completed a memoir on the Aymara Indians of Bolivia [J. Ethnol. Soc. n.s. 2 (1870): 193–305] and is going to lecture on them.
Believes he has data relevant to CD’s work on man.
Would much like CD to contribute a note for insertion after his paper on Aymara Indians.
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Effect of turf covering on the disintegration of rocks. Weathering of rock; relative importance of different agents with different rocks.
Sends information on composition of chalk at Shoreham and Folkestone.