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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 8
Summary:

Discusses homologies in various animal groups.

Comments on Mivart [Genesis of species].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Valentine Riley
Date:
1 June [1871]
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (December 1996)
Summary:

Comments on CVR’s book [Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri (1871)].

Discusses mimetic insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 4
Summary:

Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".

Has invited Michael Foster to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Briton Riviere
Date:
27 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 317
Summary:

Discusses animal drawing showing expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 123
Summary:

Thanks for the photographs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 195–6
Summary:

Delighted to hear from Lyell of JDH’s return from successful ascent of the Atlas Mts.

Fears JDH found no Madeira or Canary types, but CD is pleased at his moraine discovery.

Thinks Lyell’s health is serious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project