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DCP-LETT-7492

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 313
Summary:

Thanks for Descent.

Offers photo of patient with a second small milk-giving nipple on one breast, and of man with bristles on his ears, which come somewhat to a point.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7491

From:
George Robert Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 273
Summary:

Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.

Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871] is poor.

Mathematical illustrations of Pangenesis at Cambridge.

Wallace’s address on Madeira not convincing ["The President’s Address", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1870): xliv–lxix; A. R. Wallace, Studies scientific and social (1900) 1: 250–66].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7489F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 39)
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of Descent. Is considering running for School Board.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-02-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Samuel Bindon
Date:
19 February 1871
Source of text:
VPRS 5834/P0/1, inward correspondence p. 140, VA 1411 Industrial and Technological Museum, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7490

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 253
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7489

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
19 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 280
Summary:

Discusses publication of Descent. Orders copies of vol. 2 sent to Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe.

Will attend Athenaeum and vote for RC.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel918

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[19 February 1871]
Source of text:
JHS 5.39 (C: 5.38 omitting the last paragraph)
Summary:

Mostly about how to deal with the implications of local attractions in geodetic surveying [see JH's 1870-11-17]; JH has had the mineral son John sent analyzed and sends the results. JH commiserates with daughter-in-law Mary's illness.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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