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DCP-LETT-7624

From:
Maria Burnley Hume; Maria Burnley Gubbins; Maria Burnley Bathoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 31–6
Summary:

Anecdotal comments on various sections of Descent:

Red Indians erecting their ears;

reasoning in a pet antelope, stag deer, and mongoose;

use of foot as prehensile organ by carpenters in India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7625

From:
Mary Charlton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 135
Summary:

Thanks for £50 contribution to Edward Cresy’s memorial. £1000 collected so far for an annuity for Mrs Cresy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7626

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 2
Summary:

If FD gets the chance, will he observe whether the platysma contracts in a shivering fit? Wants much to know whether the platysma of frightened patients contracts before chloroform is given.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7623

From:
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 243
Summary:

Gives CD permission to use photographs of expressions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-03-25c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
25 March 1871
Source of text:
Z71/3751, unit 576, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-71-03-25b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
25 March 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7622

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
25 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 9 (EH 88205907)
Summary:

Asks WO to act out the sudden discovery of a dreadful object and to observe whether his platysma contracts. CD has found in his notes that it is never contracted in cases of severe dyspnoea [Expression, p. 301].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9358

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Adolph Erman
Date:
[25 March 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.110 (C: RS:HS 24.360)
Summary:

No doubt he has received some of the money granted by the B.A.A.S. Has sent it all to GE as he did not know the address of H. J. R. Petersen. Unable to follow GE's scientific arguments. Require simplification.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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