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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29] Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 341
Summary:

Forwards a photograph he thought had been lost. Has noticed that the two sides of the face are often asymmetric in portrait busts and statues.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 163
Summary:

Discusses expression on two halves of the face. Mentions photograph [of picture by Rubens].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
30 Oct 1874
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 112–113)
Summary:

Will soon send remaining sheets [of Descent, 2d English ed.]. Fears JVC’s errata have come too late for printing.

His new work [Insectivorous plants] will make a rather big book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 154
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s favourable opinion of his book [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Habits of ants; observations on their carrying empty eggs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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