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DCP-LETT-7588

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
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DCP-LETT-7590

From:
Robert Hugh Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 195
Summary:

Will be pleased to collect information on the blind for CD when time allows. Generally very few (about one quarter) of blind people entering institutions are born blind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7591

From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 29–30
Summary:

The presence of the inter-condyloid perforation in man no more indicates his simian relations than it does his relations to numerous other animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1942

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 March 1871
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 217-220
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 260-262]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel274

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[16 March 1871]
Source of text:
RGO 6.134.128
Summary:

Does not know what commitment of John Herschel (JH's son) would be for December 1871, but encourages GA to communicate with him [see GA's 1871-3-13].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7589

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Mar 1871
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Appreciative response to ARW’s "grand review" of Descent in the Academy [2 (1871–2): 177–82]. Comments in detail on ARW’s criticisms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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