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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–4 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 22
Summary:

Mentions some photos relating to expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 76–7
Summary:

J. S. Mill’s account of the moral sense in Utilitarianism [1863] appears muddled. [See Descent 1: 71 n.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Eduard Regel
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 April 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M106, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic Harrison
Date:
1 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.392)
Summary:

Discusses his concept of beauty. "I daresay I have made too much of natural selection".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Stuart Mill
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
April 1871
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1905). In: My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions . Vol. 2. London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 238]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
1 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 68–70
Summary:

Writes to HED for fear of tiring CD and to pass on, if she deems suitable, her view that there is no distinction to be made between self-regarding and other-regarding virtues.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 April 1871
Source of text:
71/1100, VPRS 1187, unit 25, p. 304, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
Date:
[after 1 Apr 1871?]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (3 March 2004)
Summary:

Protests against FJW making the struggle for existence still more odious by calling it ‘selfish competition’.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Barrington de Fonblanque
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 140
Summary:

Encloses notes that illustrate apparent intelligent reasoning by a dog which tricked an adversary, and by an elephant peaceably enduring a painful operation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 95–6
Summary:

Sexual differences in sloths. J. G. Wagler article on sloths [Isis 24 (1831): 604–12].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 37–8
Summary:

Comments on discussion of residual organs in Descent [ch. 1].

Describes his ability to contract the platysma myoides at will.

Suggests reason for loss of voluntary movement of ears in men and monkeys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 231
Summary:

Apologises for shortcomings of his argument in earlier letters, explaining he has had little scientific education, but a life-long interest in progressive development. Resumes theorising.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 53.1: A30, C134–6; DAR 161: 315
Summary:

Sends photographs of general paralytics. Expressions of exaltation of [these?] patients do not come out well in the photographs.

Is experimenting with idiots under his care. Has been unable to produce a blush in any one of them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 99: 33
Summary:

A friend with similar interests has asked to be introduced to CD, as he has some facts that will amuse him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 97
Summary:

Corrects error in his letter [7652] about date of Wagler article in Isis. Wagler said it was females that had the yellow dorsal spot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 April 1871
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
5 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 15
Summary:

Discusses loss of voluntary movement of ears in man and monkey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1871]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0085; Reel 1087
Summary:

[J. B.] Smith plans second reading [of metric bill] on 18 [Apr.] before Parliament adjourns. AH will approve it again. Philip Harwood, editor of Saturday Review, asks for article by JH on [metric system] before House votes on it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
David Thomas Ansted
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
5 April 1871
Source of text:
MM/14/158, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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From:
C. Constant
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 April 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project