From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 f. 19)
Summary:
Pleased that JJM has finished translation of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Pleased that JJM has finished translation of Descent.
Will write again to Tyndall about odours.
Asks for the circumstances under which WO saw a man arrested for murder; quotes from notes he made from WO’s conversation [Expression, p. 294].
Also would like to quote WO on the expression of resignation by persons about to undergo serious operations [Expression, p. 271].
Ogle wants very much to meet JT.
Referring to CD’s passage on monkeys’ acquiring taste for tea, coffee, and tobacco, AN tells of three monkeys he kept in Australia that developed strong taste for rum and smoking tobacco without being taught in any way [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 7 n.].