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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
11 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 150
Summary:

Encourages Forbes to publish his geological observations on Chile.

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 11 Dec 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 150
Summary:

Glacial action in the Andes.

Origin of Chilean sheep.

Varieties of S. American horses.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
[20 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 35)
Summary:

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.

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 80: B168
Summary:

Blushing in South American Indians.

Hairlessness of Aymaras and Quechuas. [See Descent 2: 322–3.]

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 143–143/2
Summary:

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.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
7 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks for DF’s observations on the Aymara Indians for use in writing manuscript [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 34–5].

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 144
Summary:

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.

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 145
Summary:

Would much like CD to contribute a note for insertion after his paper on Aymara Indians.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
31 July [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.381)
Summary:

Thanks DF for proofs of his paper on Aymara Indians.

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 146
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Descent.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
18 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 111
Summary:

Inquires about the effect of turf covering on the rate of disintegration of rock.

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 148
Summary:

Effect of turf covering on the disintegration of rocks. Weathering of rock; relative importance of different agents with different rocks.

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 164: 149
Summary:

Sends information on composition of chalk at Shoreham and Folkestone.

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