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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26? November 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 258-259
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Main
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 27
Summary:
Has read a review of Expression and finds CD’s explanation of "antithesis" [see Expression, p. 50] unsatisfactory. Proposes a theory of upward lines expressing energy and downward lines expressing the reverse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Lydekker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 26 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
Expression 2d ed. , p. 36, n.8
Summary:
Lydekker describes an inherited characteristic of drooping eyelids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[before 27 Nov 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 580
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Isaac Markens
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 201: 26
Summary:
Asks for an autographed copy of Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
28 Nov 1872
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 386)
Summary:
FPC’s article on consciousness of dogs is best analysis of an animal’s mind CD has read.
Regrets she quotes [Edward?] Jesse.
Since writing Descent, CD has come to believe dogs have a conscience.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Power Cobbe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 187
Summary:
More stories about dog behaviour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 135–7
Summary:
Is reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas of life [1872]: "One of the most eloquent books I ever read".
Owen’s communications are doing incalculable mischief to science in the eyes of Government officials. "This ignorant, careless, unobservant government."
The Nature editors, J. N. Lockyer and Bennett, blame each other for printing Owen’s letter.
Huxley looks wretched.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Main
Date:
29 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 10)
Summary:
Thanks WM for his letter. CD does not think WM’s principle of [up-tending and down-tending] lines explains the cases of expression of emotions referred to, and, even if it did, the problem would remain as to why the lines should express what WM believes they do.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maria Isabella Snow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 [Nov 1872 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 213
Summary:
Describes her experiences of blushing on her hands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project