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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 11 Dec 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 150
Summary:

Glacial action in the Andes.

Origin of Chilean sheep.

Varieties of S. American horses.

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 80: B168
Summary:

Blushing in South American Indians.

Hairlessness of Aymaras and Quechuas. [See Descent 2: 322–3.]

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 164: 143–143/2
Summary:

DF’s opinion of Gustav Jenzsch’s book [Mikroskopische Flora und Fauna (1868)]. Encloses extract of a letter from Ferdinand Zirkel also mentioning Jenzsch’s work.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 144
Summary:

Has completed a memoir on the Aymara Indians of Bolivia [J. Ethnol. Soc. n.s. 2 (1870): 193–305] and is going to lecture on them.

Believes he has data relevant to CD’s work on man.

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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 145
Summary:

Would much like CD to contribute a note for insertion after his paper on Aymara Indians.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 146
Summary:

Thanks for copy of Descent.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 148
Summary:

Effect of turf covering on the disintegration of rocks. Weathering of rock; relative importance of different agents with different rocks.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 164: 149
Summary:

Sends information on composition of chalk at Shoreham and Folkestone.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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