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DCP-LETT-7564

From:
George Brown Murdoch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 68–71
Summary:

Relation of surplus vigour of males to sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7564F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 15
Summary:

Very glad about profits of book. Glad CD flummoxed Mivart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7565

From:
Rosa Mackenzie Kettle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 8
Summary:

Requests permission to quote from CD’s letters to Charles Boner in her edition [of Memoirs and letters of Charles Boner (1871)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7566

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
Date:
about 10 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 103–8
Summary:

Asks permission to copy plates from GBAD’s work [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] to illustrate Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7567

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 and 14 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 165: 174
Summary:

Has received CD’s new book [Descent].

Will try to get answer to CD’s queries on Laura Bridgman.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7569

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 106: B98–9
Summary:

Admiration for vol. 2 of Descent, and plans for his review of it for the Academy [2 (1871): 177–82].

News of his new residence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7570

From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 172: 56
Summary:

His previous account of Phascolarctos was based on notes made at the time of observation.

His report of the successful adoption of a koala infant by a cat comes from a trustworthy observer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7572

From:
John Jeremiah
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 101–2
Summary:

Case of cat transmitting a habit to her offspring.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7573

From:
Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 135
Summary:

In response to queries on expression, which WED had asked on CD’s behalf, reports on shrugging and pouting observed in his children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7575

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
12 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 7 (EH 88205905)
Summary:

Thanks WO for his replies [to 7551]. Discusses the open mouth in surprise; asks WO to investigate its function in hearing and breathing.

Asks why deaf persons generally keep mouths open.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7577

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 435
Summary:

Pleased about sale and new issue [of Descent]. Discusses presentation copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7580

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 335
Summary:

Is leaving for Ningpo; asks CD for another copy of his [Queries about expression], which he will try to answer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7581

From:
William Rathbone Greg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 90: 127–30
Summary:

Comments on various points in Descent: proportion of sexes, moral sentiments in animals, etc. Encloses "packet of data" [missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7582

From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 227
Summary:

Thanks CD for Descent.

Sends a copy of his oratio inauguralis on De harmonie van het dierlijke leven [1848] in which he espoused evolution, but did not see the influence of natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7583

From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 169: 88
Summary:

Russian translation of Descent in progress, but the Minister of Interior has banned CD’s work and the book will be seized.

His foolish brother-in-law, Mayor of Montmartre, attempted to defend their section against the government.

CD’s queries on man and camels have gone to Alexander [Kovalevsky] in Sinai.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7586

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 79
Summary:

Sends CD a list of misprints in vol. 1 of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7587

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B102
Summary:

Although their language is different, the Bugis are typical Malays both physically and mentally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7588

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hugh Blair
Date:
[before 16 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 100
Summary:

Thanks RHB for information on expression in the blind.

Sends queries on expression and asks whether he could answer them with respect to those born blind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7590

From:
Robert Hugh Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 195
Summary:

Will be pleased to collect information on the blind for CD when time allows. Generally very few (about one quarter) of blind people entering institutions are born blind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7591

From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 29–30
Summary:

The presence of the inter-condyloid perforation in man no more indicates his simian relations than it does his relations to numerous other animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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