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DCP-LETT-8645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
23 Nov 1872
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks AG for Popular Science Review containing his article [on Ceratodus, 11 (1872): 257–66]. CD had already read it with great interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8652

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
28 Nov 1872
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 386)
Summary:

FPC’s article on consciousness of dogs is best analysis of an animal’s mind CD has read.

Regrets she quotes [Edward?] Jesse.

Since writing Descent, CD has come to believe dogs have a conscience.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8654

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Main
Date:
29 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 10)
Summary:

Thanks WM for his letter. CD does not think WM’s principle of [up-tending and down-tending] lines explains the cases of expression of emotions referred to, and, even if it did, the problem would remain as to why the lines should express what WM believes they do.

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