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DCP-LETT-7484

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 312
Summary:

Values CD’s approbation more than that of anyone else now living.

CD’s "searching questions". Sends answers separately.

Offers his observation on morbid pigmentation of skin.

Offers photographs of abnormal features in patients – ears with bristles, women with two sets of nipples.

Encloses notes on weeping and laughter in the insane.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7484A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
16 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 249: 98
Summary:

"I have made a serious blunder in p. 297, vol 1 of my book [Descent of man]. Kindly inform me by return of post whether this is printed in Dutch; for if not I will send you a correction in M.S. There are also two short omissions to be made in Vol. 2 … "

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12166

From:
Nevil Story-Maskelyne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.24
Summary:

His colleague, [G. R.] Waterhouse, has passed an inquiry from JH to NM regarding a mineralogical character. It is a specimen of Obsidian, very high in iron content.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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