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DCP-LETT-7666

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 336
Summary:

Thanks for information about blushing of idiots.

Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".

Thanks for photographs.

Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.

Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7666F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[7 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 388)
Summary:

CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7662

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A25–7
Summary:

CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7663

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 98
Summary:

Sexual differences in coloration in Lemur macaco.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7664

From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 99
Summary:

On some errata in Descent.

Sends extracts from a statistical study giving proportion of sexes in [population of] Netherlands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10653

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[7 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.361
Summary:

Is at present too ill to involve himself in any calculations necessary for making a good optical eyepiece.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC583

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Frances Harriet Hooker (nee Henslow)
Date:
7 April 1871
Source of text:
JDH/1/9 f.549-550, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-7665

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 381, Woolner 1917, p. 288
Summary:

Asks TW to persuade painters to observe how far down body blush extends on models.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6102A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998)
Summary:

Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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