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DCP-LETT-8529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
20 [Jan or Feb] 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 32)
Summary:

Asks WED’s help in acquiring expression photographs and engravings.

Wishes to send Langstaff a copy of his book [Expression], in gratitude for his valuable notes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
11 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 31)
Summary:

Would like precise details about pouting of English children to add to his information about children of savages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7576

From:
Patrick Matthew
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library)
Summary:

Encloses an article he wrote for the Scotsman [9 Mar 1871, p. 5].

Wishes he had time to write a critique of Descent. There is evidence of design and benevolence in nature. Beauty cannot be accounted for by natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7689G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
16 Apr 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13
Summary:

Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7845

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
1 July [1871]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 68)
Summary:

Thanks AGB for "various notes".

Would like to hear his views about the Brahmaea.

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