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DCP-LETT-7495

From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 199
Summary:

Has just received copy of CD’s work [Descent].

Can corroborate artificial compression of skull practised by Indians.

May have to modify his earlier published opinions on CD’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7499

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
20 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 334
Summary:

JC-B’s MS most useful.

P. Gratiolet’s observations on contraction and dilation of pupils of eye of a person in extreme terror. Has JC-B ever observed this? Expression has been his hobby-horse for 30 years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP764

From:
Arthur Hay
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 February 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418895
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7494

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 324
Summary:

Thanks for new book [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-02-20

From:
Marcus Clarke
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
20 February 1871
Source of text:
Letter no. 42/I.T.M.71, Outward letterbook 1870-9, pp. 144, Industrial and Technological Museum and Public Library, Museum Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7498

From:
Robert McLachlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 79–80
Summary:

Thanks for Descent; will forward any information he has after he has studied it.

Instance of inequality in left and right anal appendices of caddis-fly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7493

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
20 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, f. 18)
Summary:

Sends corrections for French edition of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7496

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 388
Summary:

A second edition [issue] of Descent may be needed in short time; preparations should be made, and corrections sent to Clowes. Wallace, Mivart, and F. P. Cobbe have been sent copies of both volumes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5833

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alfred Brothers
Date:
[20 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.357
Summary:

Thanks for, and comments on, some photographs of the solar corona.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4963

From:
Thomas Andrews
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.349
Summary:

Has received a letter from J. C. Poggendorf. Further reports on his experiments with gas.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7497

From:
Thomas Woolner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 161
Summary:

Thanks CD for sending his book [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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