From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[1 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 437
Summary:
Discusses new edition of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 8 (EH 88205946)
Summary:
Ogle will keep JT’s suggestion in mind in observing less hairy races of man and the lower animals.
Asks JT whether he can help Ogle on a troublesome point on the colour of tissues with olfactory nerves, and the relation of colour to the absorption of odours. Does JT’s respirator deprive odorous substances of their smell?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 9 (EH 88205947)
Summary:
Ogle is unacquainted with JT; would be proud and pleased to call on him. CD likes what little he has seen of him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John James Aubertin
Date:
3 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 25
Summary:
Invites him to visit.
Miss Butler is dead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
3 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 24, 54–5
Summary:
Admits pointer illustration is faulty.
Discusses shame, remorse, social instincts, approbation, and other topics discussed in Descent, ch. 4. "But as yet I nail my colours to the mast."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 6 (EH 88205904)
Summary:
Will write again to Tyndall about odours.
Asks for the circumstances under which WO saw a man arrested for murder; quotes from notes he made from WO’s conversation [Expression, p. 294].
Also would like to quote WO on the expression of resignation by persons about to undergo serious operations [Expression, p. 271].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 10 (EH 88205948)
Summary:
Ogle wants very much to meet JT.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 11 (EH 88205949)
Summary:
Thanks JT for his kindness to Ogle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
9 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 64–6
Summary:
Seeks to clarify his and HW’s views on the causes of repentance or shame.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
Date:
about 10 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 103–8
Summary:
Asks permission to copy plates from GBAD’s work [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] to illustrate Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Currey
Date:
11 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Report on J. P. Weale Society paper SP1250)
Summary:
Gives his opinion on four papers by J. P. M. Weale.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
12 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 7 (EH 88205905)
Summary:
Thanks WO for his replies [to 7551]. Discusses the open mouth in surprise; asks WO to investigate its function in hearing and breathing.
Asks why deaf persons generally keep mouths open.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 435
Summary:
Pleased about sale and new issue [of Descent]. Discusses presentation copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hugh Blair
Date:
[before 16 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 100
Summary:
Thanks RHB for information on expression in the blind.
Sends queries on expression and asks whether he could answer them with respect to those born blind.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
18 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 8 (EH 88205906)
Summary:
Agrees that in a deaf person the jaw may fall because of concentrated attention.
In surprise, mouth is opened suddenly and chest filled with air. This expression occurs in all parts of the world. Odd that so simple a movement is so perplexing to understand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
20 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 153: 77
Summary:
Reports on sales and reception of his book [Descent]. Thanks HED for her help.
Wallace’s article in the Academy [2 (1870–1): 177–82] shows CD has had no influence on him; the review has had hardly any influence on CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Rathbone Greg
Date:
21 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 348
Summary:
Comments on WRG’s MS on ratio of the sexes at birth.
Offers to send J. M. A. Thury’s paper ["Loi de production des sexes", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 18 (1863): 91–8].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 190–192
Summary:
Asks name of an Abutilon from Fritz Müller.
Questions about Drosophyllum for experiments;
the meaning of "Sirdar".
Wonderful success of Descent. Astonished by liberality of public. No abuse yet.
Marvels at JDH’s plans for a trip to Morocco. Asks him to look for alpine insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
22 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 30, LL 3: 138, 200
Summary:
Asks for photograph of pointed ear of ERL’s friend.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Greenwood
Date:
24 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 409, ML 1: 324
Summary:
Encloses a letter [7617] to be forwarded to the author of the review of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project