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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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
10 [Dec] 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 16
Summary:

Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.

Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
9 June [1872?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.408)
Summary:

Agrees to read paper; warns he lacks mathematical knowledge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
24 Aug 1872
Source of text:
CUL: Royal Greenwich Observatory archives 6/273 (section 3–4: 348–9)
Summary:

CD’s son Leonard of the Royal Engineers has applied to Sir George Biddell Airy to be an observer on the Venus Expedition. Leonard failed to mention his qualifications, which CD now relates with the request that HA draw them to his father’s attention.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
[before 21 Jan 1873]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS. Add. 7656: RS899)
Summary:

Sends HA’s paper ["On leaf arrangement"] with a supporting note [from CD] to Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
27 Jan [1876?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 17
Summary:

Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project