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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
10 [Dec] 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 16
Summary:

Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.

Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frank Walter Churchill Simmons
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 185–6
Summary:

Maoris of New Zealand admire beards, contrary to statement in Descent [2: 349].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
10 December 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418328
Summary:

Asks for exact translations of J. Hübner's generic characters in his Verzeichniß bekannter Schmetterlinge.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project