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DCP-LETT-7666

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 336
Summary:

Thanks for information about blushing of idiots.

Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".

Thanks for photographs.

Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.

Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7666F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[7 Apr 1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 388)
Summary:

CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7662

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A25–7
Summary:

CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7663

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 98
Summary:

Sexual differences in coloration in Lemur macaco.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7664

From:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 99
Summary:

On some errata in Descent.

Sends extracts from a statistical study giving proportion of sexes in [population of] Netherlands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10653

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[7 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.361
Summary:

Is at present too ill to involve himself in any calculations necessary for making a good optical eyepiece.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC583

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Frances Harriet Hooker (nee Henslow)
Date:
7 April 1871
Source of text:
JDH/1/9 f.549-550, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-7665

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 381, Woolner 1917, p. 288
Summary:

Asks TW to persuade painters to observe how far down body blush extends on models.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6102A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998)
Summary:

Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7668

From:
George Frederick Ansell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 105–8
Summary:

Anecdotes about a dog and cat evidencing "a high order of instinct".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7669

From:
Napoleon de la Fleurière
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 135
Summary:

Believes CD should answer the critical article [review of Descent] in the Times [of 7 and 8 Apr].

Moral sense and moral conduct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7667

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Prescott Knight
Date:
8 Apr 1871
Source of text:
University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center (Heineman [Album] I, leaf 30)
Summary:

Formally declines dinner invitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7669F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louisa Stevenson
Date:
8 Apr 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.6414)
Summary:

Agrees to have his or Emma Darwin’s name added to the General Committee for securing medical education to women.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7672

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
9 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 337
Summary:

Asks JC-B to read CD’s MS on confusion of mind, which often or generally accompanies blushing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7671

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 105: A41
Summary:

Arrangements for transfer of rabbits to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7670

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
9 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Boston Society of Natural History (papers at the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Summary:

Thanks for information on colour differences in sexes of Lemur.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10654

From:
Frederick Howlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.27
Summary:

Is grateful for his reply. Hopes he is feeling better. Escaped worst of the winter by expedition to Algeria, though the results were disappointing. Comments on some of his observations. Feels sure [W.?] Ackland will be able to construct a suitable eyepiece.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7673

From:
John Newenham Hoare
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 147–8
Summary:

Sends quotations from Xenophon and Horace pointing to sexual selection. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 29 n.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7675

From:
Rosa Mackenzie Kettle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 9
Summary:

Thanks CD for correcting proof slips quoting CD letters to Charles Boner, though she does not agree with CD’s too short comments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4965

From:
Thomas Andrews
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.350
Summary:

Encloses notice which J. C. Poggendorf has published regarding JH. Details of further modifications in his experimental apparatus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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