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From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 100–4
Summary:

Comments on and corrections for chapter 13, "Mammals", of Descent.

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From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 108–9
Summary:

Retention of horns by female deer with fawn [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 503].

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From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 80
Summary:

Observations on habits of caribou and deer in Newfoundland.

Suggests nightingale egg coloration evolved from white to olive for protection.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 81
Summary:

Argues that coloration of eggs is a protective adaptation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 172
Summary:

A geologist friend leaving for Nevada offers to investigate any questions CD may have for this region.

Nesting plumage of common chaffinch resembles adult winter plumage of female brambling.

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From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 105
Summary:

Praise for and detailed comments on Expression.

Two cases of coloration in animals – one from sexual selection, the other helping to procure prey [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 542–3].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
Date:
5 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (James Needham Papers: Collection 21-23-479, Box 3: 28)
Summary:

Thanks for HR’s valuable remarks about Expression, and returns HRs copy, signed.

Discusses some of HR’s anecdotes about children sucking their tongues.

Admits that the youth who trembled so that he could not reload his gun after killing his first snipe was himself, when a school-boy.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 82
Summary:

Insists that suckling babies pound and scratch mothers’ breasts. Perhaps CD’s evidence to the contrary comes from ladies, who only expose small portion of bosom, as opposed to working-class women.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 83
Summary:

Sends a sample of seeds of Onobrychis sativa and Poterium muricatum, plants that show mimicry.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 84
Summary:

Suggests that mimicry of sainfoin by burnet plants is an adaptation against farmers’ weeding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project