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DCP-LETT-7605G

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Mar 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 22)
Summary:

Possible quotations about shame for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7526

From:
John James Aubertin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 125
Summary:

Was reminded of CD by his new book [Descent] in a shop;

reports having come on train as far as Bromley in previous summer, but found no means of travelling the seven miles to Down. Might try again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7528

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 68
Summary:

Parallel between CD’s account of morality [in Descent], of social instinct preceding selfishness, and Henry Maine’s account of notions of property of a community preceding individual property [in Ancient law (1861)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9237

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[1 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 437
Summary:

Discusses new edition of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7524

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 8 (EH 88205946)
Summary:

Ogle will keep JT’s suggestion in mind in observing less hairy races of man and the lower animals.

Asks JT whether he can help Ogle on a troublesome point on the colour of tissues with olfactory nerves, and the relation of colour to the absorption of odours. Does JT’s respirator deprive odorous substances of their smell?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7525

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 9 (EH 88205947)
Summary:

Ogle is unacquainted with JT; would be proud and pleased to call on him. CD likes what little he has seen of him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7527

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 106: C7
Summary:

JT suggests that Ogle call upon him so that they can arrange experiments suitable for his purpose.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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