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DCP-LETT-7415

From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31
Summary:

Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.

Notes on echinoderms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7696

From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 330
Summary:

Believes his letter of 17 Apr bears also on vol. 1 of Descent.

Ability to move ears is common in his family.

Similarity of foot of man to that of gorilla continues beyond foetal stage.

Invites CD to stay overnight if visiting the area.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7793

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 8
Summary:

Discusses homologies in various animal groups.

Comments on Mivart [Genesis of species].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7795

From:
Thomas Bradfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 181–2
Summary:

Instance of a dog able to discriminate a note played out of tune. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 569.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1179

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 298
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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WCP6753

From:
John Hampden
To:
Committee of the Entomological Society
Date:
June 1871
Source of text:
[Archer, W.]. (1871). John Hampden persecuted. English Mechanic and World of Science : 13 (330): 436
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7794

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (December 1996)
Summary:

Comments on CVR’s book [Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri (1871)].

Discusses mimetic insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000889

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
1 June 1871
Source of text:
MM/14/159, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-7792

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Suess
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.397)
Summary:

Thanks for his election to the Austrian Imperial Academy.

Is sorry ES has suffered in health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5735

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
Date:
1 June 1871
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 189-190]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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