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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 29)
Summary:

Asks FD questions about his sketch [missing] of ridges and furrows. [FD’s answers are interlined.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
13 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 17
Summary:

Will FD try to persuade A. D. Bartlett to show a live snake to a porcupine and observe whether the porcupine rattles the quills on its tail? [See 8333.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Butler
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 30 May 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 106: A6–7
Summary:

Sends drawings of dogs in different attitudes, drawn by his friend A. May. FD should not trouble CD unless he thinks the drawings will please him. [See Expression, pp. 54–5.]

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From:
Alfred Henry Garrod
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 June [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 10
Summary:

Sends an account of an attempt to take a sphygmograph tracing of a woman during fright

and some references that might apply to CD’s work on pulse rates during rage and fright.

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