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DCP-LETT-8548

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 84
Summary:

Has translated half of Expression; is delighted with it. Comments on some points that he questions.

Is at work on concluding part of his handbook of zoology [Handbuch der Zoologie, 2 vols. (1863–75), with A. Gerstaecker].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8554

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 85
Summary:

Corrects CD’s spelling of the name of a statue: the Arrotino (spelled "Arretino" by CD) [see Expression, p. 184, on grief-muscles].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8574

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 86
Summary:

Doubts accuracy of Bible translations quoted by CD as evidence that Semitic races blush.

Questions his note on derivation of words like "ugly", "huge", etc.

Lists some mistakes and misprints.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8587

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 87
Summary:

JVC questions accuracy of Hensleigh Wedgwood’s statement that the word for a toad in all European languages expresses the habit of swelling [see Expression, p. 104]. Has changed "all" to "some".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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