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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
12 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 338
Summary:

Discusses blushing. CD believes confusion of mind alone can account for it. Sends MS for JC-B’s comments and corrections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
12 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 22)
Summary:

Sends contribution of £5 to Settle Cave Exploration Fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Rae Thomson (George) Fraser
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 100–2
Summary:

On sexual selection in butterflies. [See GF’s article in Nature 3 (1870–1): 489; also Descent (1875): 312.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 395
Summary:

Asks CD’s opinion of a request from Loescher of Turin. Thinks Loescher should have named his translator.

Does CD know the name of the Times reviewer?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
W[illiam] Ackland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.380
Summary:

Has been unable to locate [W. L.] Newman's tables (astronomical) at the R.A.S. Would he please send further details.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project