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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 144
Summary:

Has completed a memoir on the Aymara Indians of Bolivia [J. Ethnol. Soc. n.s. 2 (1870): 193–305] and is going to lecture on them.

Believes he has data relevant to CD’s work on man.

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 145
Summary:

Would much like CD to contribute a note for insertion after his paper on Aymara Indians.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
31 July [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.381)
Summary:

Thanks DF for proofs of his paper on Aymara Indians.

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 146
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Descent.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
18 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 111
Summary:

Inquires about the effect of turf covering on the rate of disintegration of rock.

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 148
Summary:

Effect of turf covering on the disintegration of rocks. Weathering of rock; relative importance of different agents with different rocks.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 164: 149
Summary:

Sends information on composition of chalk at Shoreham and Folkestone.

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