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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
3 May 1871
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Asks VOK to translate a passage from Franz Körte, Die Streich-, Zug- oder Wander-Heuschrecke [1828], p. 33.

Deplores the "fearful piece of tyranny" that is obstructing publication of Descent in Russia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Langstaff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 195.2 (letters): 37
Summary:

Contraction of platysma occurs during surgery under chloroform from touch of knife, independently of fear.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Lonsdale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 47–8
Summary:

Credit for observation on supra-condyloid foramen in man is really due to Robert Knox, not John Struthers, as in Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
3 May 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project