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FVM-70-06-04a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Boyle
Date:
4 June 1870
Source of text:
Private hands.Published in Pretlove (2012), p. 74
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7217

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
4 June [1870]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/38)
Summary:

Asks to have observations made of a person retching violently, but ejecting nothing from stomach, in order to test relation between spasmodic contraction of orbicular muscles and tears. CD believes tears are caused by matter filling nostrils.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1538

From:
Theodosius Purland
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 June 1870
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/39
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/39
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 254-255]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7216

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 38
Summary:

The Negro’s idea of beauty is the same as white man’s.

Believes the Jollops select for blackness.

Native immunity from coast fever is not complete.

Has found stone instruments.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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