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DCP-LETT-7790

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–4 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 22
Summary:

Mentions some photos relating to expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7048

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 76–7
Summary:

J. S. Mill’s account of the moral sense in Utilitarianism [1863] appears muddled. [See Descent 1: 71 n.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7650

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic Harrison
Date:
1 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.392)
Summary:

Discusses his concept of beauty. "I daresay I have made too much of natural selection".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7651

From:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
1 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 68–70
Summary:

Writes to HED for fear of tiring CD and to pass on, if she deems suitable, her view that there is no distinction to be made between self-regarding and other-regarding virtues.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7651F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
Date:
[after 1 Apr 1871?]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (3 March 2004)
Summary:

Protests against FJW making the struggle for existence still more odious by calling it ‘selfish competition’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7653

From:
Edward Barrington de Fonblanque
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 140
Summary:

Encloses notes that illustrate apparent intelligent reasoning by a dog which tricked an adversary, and by an elephant peaceably enduring a painful operation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7652

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 95–6
Summary:

Sexual differences in sloths. J. G. Wagler article on sloths [Isis 24 (1831): 604–12].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7657

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 37–8
Summary:

Comments on discussion of residual organs in Descent [ch. 1].

Describes his ability to contract the platysma myoides at will.

Suggests reason for loss of voluntary movement of ears in men and monkeys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7654

From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 231
Summary:

Apologises for shortcomings of his argument in earlier letters, explaining he has had little scientific education, but a life-long interest in progressive development. Resumes theorising.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7658

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 53.1: A30, C134–6; DAR 161: 315
Summary:

Sends photographs of general paralytics. Expressions of exaltation of [these?] patients do not come out well in the photographs.

Is experimenting with idiots under his care. Has been unable to produce a blush in any one of them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7655

From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 99: 33
Summary:

A friend with similar interests has asked to be introduced to CD, as he has some facts that will amuse him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7656

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 97
Summary:

Corrects error in his letter [7652] about date of Wagler article in Isis. Wagler said it was females that had the yellow dorsal spot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7659

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
5 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 15
Summary:

Discusses loss of voluntary movement of ears in man and monkey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7661A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Le Couteur
Date:
6 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 106
Summary:

Is honoured to hear from JLC and would welcome the communication of any facts that he cares to send him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7660

From:
David Wedderburn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 163, 167–9
Summary:

Sexual selection in deer.

Assemblies of black cocks.

Nests of spotted flycatcher.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7661

From:
John Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 145–6
Summary:

Corrects CD on his assertion that the platysma myoides "cannot voluntarily be brought into action" [Descent 1: 19].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7666

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 336
Summary:

Thanks for information about blushing of idiots.

Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".

Thanks for photographs.

Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.

Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7666F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[7 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 388)
Summary:

CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7662

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A25–7
Summary:

CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7663

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 98
Summary:

Sexual differences in coloration in Lemur macaco.

Contributor:
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