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DCP-LETT-7543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Du Cane Godman
Date:
4 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.363)
Summary:

Has forwarded FDuCG’s book [Natural history of the Azores (1870)] to Dr Hartlaub.

Asks about eyes of camel when the animal is uttering a loud sound.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7574

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
12 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.387)
Summary:

Discusses his blunder in "confounding the two foramina" [in the skull] of apes [in Descent].

Discusses views of George Rolleston, St George Mivart, and Huxley on the occurrence of the foramina.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7595

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
18 Mar 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on FCD’s 1848 work [see 7582] in which he came near to anticipating CD.

Comments on FCD’s paper [on action of the eyelids, see 7203]. Asks about contraction or dilation of the iris due to emotional states, illness, or prostration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7594

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Date:
18 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.388)
Summary:

Thanks TRRS for copy of his book [Essays on Darwinism (1871)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7646

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Henslow; Anne Barnard
Date:
31 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.390)
Summary:

Thanks AHB for her letter about girl with pointed ears.

His undying gratitude to her father [J. S. Henslow].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Brookes Mason
Date:
31 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.391)
Summary:

Thanks him for information on children with hairy backs.

Discusses paper by J. M. Duncan on the relative weights of male and female infants.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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