From:
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 243
Summary:
Gives CD permission to use photographs of expressions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 65–8
Summary:
Answers CD’s questions.
Reception of Descent. Evolution accepted everywhere; descent of man accepted calmly.
Morocco plans.
Fears for Huxley, who is overworked.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 242
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s letter on his review of Descent in the Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 228
Summary:
Answers to CD’s queries will take time. CD may not be aware of the influence of accommodation on the diameter of the pupil of the eye. Parrots, for example, contract or dilate the pupil independently of amount of light [see Expression, p. 304]. Sends his book on the subject [On the anomalies of accommodation and refraction of the eye (1864)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Harrison William Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 72
Summary:
Effects of first impregnation on litters from subsequent pregnancies.
Power of selective breeding to produce different varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 82
Summary:
Note on errata in first volume of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29–31 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 324
Summary:
On the power of concentration to influence body organs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 314
Summary:
Sends scraps of information. Everything he has sent is unreservedly at CD’s disposal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Murray Fleming
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 134
Summary:
Discusses breeding fancy pigeons from the wild blue rock-dove.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Brookes Mason
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 72–3
Summary:
More details on children with hairy backs;
reasons for greater mortality rate of male children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Anne Henslow; Anne Barnard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 42
Summary:
On reading Descent was reminded of having seen, on a visit to an idiot asylum with her father [J. S. Henslow], a woman with long pointed ears.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 170, DAR 88: 165–6
Summary:
Questions CD’s attribution of a sense of beauty to animals and his use of natural selection to explain phenomena JM feels it more appropriate to describe as social selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic Bateman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 58
Summary:
Sends his work discussing the anatomical seat of the faculty of language [On aphasia (1870)]. Concludes that it may be impossible to find any cerebral centre for speech and that this fact opposes the idea of the descent of man from some lower form.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 133
Summary:
Many thanks for copy of Descent.
Would like to visit CD when he comes to England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
