From John Wood 6 April 1871
Summary
Corrects CD on his assertion that the platysma myoides "cannot voluntarily be brought into action" [Descent 1: 19].
| Author: | John Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 145–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7661 |
To John Le Couteur 6 April [1871]
Summary
Is honoured to hear from JLC and would welcome the communication of any facts that he cares to send him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Le Couteur |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7661A |
From Francis Galton to Francis Darwin 7 April 1871
Summary
CD will take care of the eight little rabbits. FG outlines their future.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A25–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7662 |
From J. E. Gray 7 April 1871
Summary
Sexual differences in coloration in Lemur macaco.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7663 |
From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 7 April 1871
Summary
On some errata in Descent.
Sends extracts from a statistical study giving proportion of sexes in [population of] Netherlands.
| Author: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7664 |
To Thomas Woolner 7 April [1871]
Summary
Asks TW to persuade painters to observe how far down body blush extends on models.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Woolner |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 381, Woolner 1917, p. 288 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7665 |
To James Crichton-Browne 7 April [1871]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 336 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7666 |
From Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe [7 April 1871]
Summary
CD is reading the Theological Review (Cobbe 1871) with the greatest interest and attention.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frances Power Cobbe |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 388) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7666F |
To J. P. Knight 8 April 1871
Summary
Formally declines dinner invitation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Prescott Knight |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center (Heineman [Album] I, leaf 30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7667 |
From G. F. Ansell 8 April 1871
Summary
Anecdotes about a dog and cat evidencing "a high order of instinct".
| Author: | George Frederick Ansell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 105–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7668 |
From Napoleon de la Fleurière 8 April [1871]
Summary
Believes CD should answer the critical article [review of Descent] in the Times [of 7 and 8 Apr].
Moral sense and moral conduct.
| Author: | Napoleon de la Fleurière |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7669 |
To Louisa Stevenson 8 April 1871
Summary
Agrees to have his or Emma Darwin’s name added to the General Committee for securing medical education to women.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louisa Stevenson |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (Acc.6414) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7669F |
To J. E. Gray 9 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks for information on colour differences in sexes of Lemur.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Boston Society of Natural History (papers at the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7670 |
From Francis Galton 9 April [1871]
Summary
Arrangements for transfer of rabbits to CD.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7671 |
To James Crichton-Browne 9 April [1871]
Summary
Asks JC-B to read CD’s MS on confusion of mind, which often or generally accompanies blushing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 337 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7672 |
From J. N. Hoare 10 April 1871
Summary
Sends quotations from Xenophon and Horace pointing to sexual selection. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 29 n.]
| Author: | John Newenham Hoare |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 147–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7673 |
From John Wood 11 April 1871
Summary
Emotional states leading to contraction of the platysma. Contraction of skin muscles.
| Author: | John Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7674 |
From R. M. Kettle 11 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks CD for correcting proof slips quoting CD letters to Charles Boner, though she does not agree with CD’s too short comments.
| Author: | Rosa Mackenzie Kettle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7675 |
From John Murray 12 April [1871]
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion of a request from Loescher of Turin. Thinks Loescher should have named his translator.
Does CD know the name of the Times reviewer?
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 395 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7676 |
From George Fraser 12 April 1871
Summary
On sexual selection in butterflies. [See GF’s article in Nature 3 (1870–1): 489; also Descent (1875): 312.]
| Author: | George Rae Thomson (George) Fraser |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 100–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7677 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (57) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (4) |
| Cobbe, F. P. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (98) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (6) |
| Galton, Francis | (4) |
| Gray, J. E. | (4) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (3) |
