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DCP-LETT-7804

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
6 June [1871]
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:

Sends subscription for the Index.

FEA’s article ["The intuitional and scientific schools of free religion", Index 15 Apr 1871] is one of the most striking CD has read.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 4
Summary:

Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".

Has invited Michael Foster to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7803

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
6 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.419)
Summary:

Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].

Invites him to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7805

From:
Gerhard Friedrich (Gerhard) Rohlfs
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 183–4
Summary:

Various observations from his experience in Africa relevant to Descent.

Fertility of hybrids of blacks and whites.

Protective coloration of Sahara animals.

Natives’ ideas of female beauty.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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