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DCP-LETT-7544

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
4 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Report on J. P. Weale Society Paper SP1250)
Summary:

Thinks J. P. M. Weale’s papers all require great condensation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7548

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
5 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for letter [7533] and the interesting notes. Even more interesting is HHHvZ’s case of the De Haas family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7550

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66 f. 19)
Summary:

Pleased that JJM has finished translation of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7551

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 6 (EH 88205904)
Summary:

Will write again to Tyndall about odours.

Asks for the circumstances under which WO saw a man arrested for murder; quotes from notes he made from WO’s conversation [Expression, p. 294].

Also would like to quote WO on the expression of resignation by persons about to undergo serious operations [Expression, p. 271].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7552

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 10 (EH 88205948)
Summary:

Ogle wants very much to meet JT.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 222–3)
Summary:

Asks what his profits on the reprints of Descent will be when half have been sold.

Good reviews in Saturday Review and Pall Mall Gazette;

contemptuous one as usual in Athenæum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7555F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Date:
[8, 9 or 10] Mar 1871
Source of text:
Nicols 1883 , p. 74
Summary:

The information about the phascolarctos [koala] is very surprising, and he will preserve AM’s note.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7554

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 11 (EH 88205949)
Summary:

Thanks JT for his kindness to Ogle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
9 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 64–6
Summary:

Seeks to clarify his and HW’s views on the causes of repentance or shame.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7566

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
Date:
about 10 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 103–8
Summary:

Asks permission to copy plates from GBAD’s work [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] to illustrate Expression.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7568

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Currey
Date:
11 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Report on J. P. Weale Society paper SP1250)
Summary:

Gives his opinion on four papers by J. P. M. Weale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8127

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
Date:
[after 11 Mar 1871?]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 57–31570)
Summary:

A draft letter [but sent in the original state by Emma Darwin]. Approves of FJW’s notice of his views.

CD has slightly revised parts in view of both approving and disapproving critics, but still remains convinced about his fundamental notions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7574

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Busk
Date:
12 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.387)
Summary:

Discusses his blunder in "confounding the two foramina" [in the skull] of apes [in Descent].

Discusses views of George Rolleston, St George Mivart, and Huxley on the occurrence of the foramina.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7575

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
12 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 7 (EH 88205905)
Summary:

Thanks WO for his replies [to 7551]. Discusses the open mouth in surprise; asks WO to investigate its function in hearing and breathing.

Asks why deaf persons generally keep mouths open.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4292

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 March [1871]
Source of text:
English Heritage: EH 88202150
Summary:

Asks whether Bugis are Malays.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7578

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brown Murdoch
Date:
13 Mar 1871
Source of text:
David Henderson-Howat (private collection)
Summary:

Believes he has committed an oversight with regard to sexual selection in insects. Cites conclusions of B. T. Lowne, which are similar to GBM’s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7577

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
13 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 435
Summary:

Pleased about sale and new issue [of Descent]. Discusses presentation copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7579

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
13 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks BJS for his interesting letter about parrots and language.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7579A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
English Heritage, Down House (EH 88202150)
Summary:

Asks whether Bugis [Buggess] are Malays. [See 7587.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11936

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
15 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/1). Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum.
Summary:

Wants WED to thank F. de Chaumont for some valuable observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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