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DCP-LETT-7534

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/25 [9878]
Summary:

Comments on Descent.

EH’s refusal of position at Vienna.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7535

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Wolf
Date:
3 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Palmer 1895, p. 193
Summary:

Asks for a drawing from life of a "laughing monkey" (Cynopithecus niger) for Expression [p. 136].

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DCP-LETT-7537

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
3 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 24, 54–5
Summary:

Admits pointer illustration is faulty.

Discusses shame, remorse, social instincts, approbation, and other topics discussed in Descent, ch. 4. "But as yet I nail my colours to the mast."

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DCP-LETT-7539

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John James Aubertin
Date:
3 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 25
Summary:

Invites him to visit.

Miss Butler is dead.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Du Cane Godman
Date:
4 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.363)
Summary:

Has forwarded FDuCG’s book [Natural history of the Azores (1870)] to Dr Hartlaub.

Asks about eyes of camel when the animal is uttering a loud sound.

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DCP-LETT-7544

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
4 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Report on J. P. Weale Society Paper SP1250)
Summary:

Thinks J. P. M. Weale’s papers all require great condensation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7548

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
5 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for letter [7533] and the interesting notes. Even more interesting is HHHvZ’s case of the De Haas family.

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DCP-LETT-7550

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:
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DCP-LETT-7551

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 6 (EH 88205904)
Summary:

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].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7552

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 10 (EH 88205948)
Summary:

Ogle wants very much to meet JT.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 11 (EH 88205949)
Summary:

Thanks JT for his kindness to Ogle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 222–3)
Summary:

Asks what his profits on the reprints of Descent will be when half have been sold.

Good reviews in Saturday Review and Pall Mall Gazette;

contemptuous one as usual in Athenæum.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7555F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[8, 9 or 10] Mar 1871
Source of text:
Nicols 1883 , p. 74
Summary:

The information about the phascolarctos [koala] is very surprising, and he will preserve AM’s note.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
9 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 64–6
Summary:

Seeks to clarify his and HW’s views on the causes of repentance or shame.

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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.

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DCP-LETT-7568

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Currey
Date:
11 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Report on J. P. Weale Society paper SP1250)
Summary:

Gives his opinion on four papers by J. P. M. Weale.

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DCP-LETT-7574

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
12 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.387)
Summary:

Discusses his blunder in "confounding the two foramina" [in the skull] of apes [in Descent].

Discusses views of George Rolleston, St George Mivart, and Huxley on the occurrence of the foramina.

Contributor:
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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:
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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-7578

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brown Murdoch
Date:
13 Mar 1871
Source of text:
David Henderson-Howat (private collection)
Summary:

Believes he has committed an oversight with regard to sexual selection in insects. Cites conclusions of B. T. Lowne, which are similar to GBM’s.

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