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From Andrew Smith   17 April 1871

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On Hottentots’ blushing.

Gives case of a baboon’s revenge. [See Descent, 2d ed. (1874), p. 69.]

Author:  Andrew Smith
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 109–10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7694

From Hermann Hoffmann   17 April 1871

Summary

Comments on Descent.

Reports a case of protective coloration of bugs on Tilia

and observations on frogs fighting [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 281, 350].

Encloses drawings of chicken feet.

Author:  Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 166: 229
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7695

To Bartholomäus von Carneri   17 April [1871]

Summary

Thanks BvC for the present of his book, Sittlichkeit und Darwinismus.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Bartholomäus von Carneri
Date:  17 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, Handschriftensammlung (Kryptonachlass of von Carneri)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7695F

From Hinrich Nitsche   18 April 1871

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Sends CD photographs of his atavistic ears and ears of a foetal orang in the collection of the Zoological Museum, Leipzig.

Author:  Hinrich Nitsche
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 41–2, 45–6, 67
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7697

To James Crichton-Browne   18 April 1871

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Comments on notes by JC-B on relation between blushing and mental disturbance. Asks for further information about blushing. "The single pencil line down this MS is my mark that I have used it once."

Thanks for "dreadful photo of the imbeciles".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Crichton-Browne
Date:  18 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 143: 339; DAR 185: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7698

From John Wood   19 April 1871

Summary

Movement of hair; action of occipito-frontalis muscle.

Author:  John Wood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 181: 142
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7699

From T. G. Cresy   19 April 1871

Summary

Thanks for contribution to fund for his brother’s widow.

Author:  Theodore Grant Cresy
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 161: 252
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7700

From W. R. Greg   19 April [1871]

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Thanks CD for thinking of his speculation.

Has made a note of the paper mentioned by CD.

Author:  William Rathbone Greg
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 165: 225
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7701

To Hermann Hoffmann   20 April [1871]

Summary

Obliged for letter about dog.

Comments on HH’s article ["Zur Geschlechtsbestimmung", Bot. Ztg. 29 (1871): 81–9, 97–109].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
Date:  20 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 145: 133
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7702

From H. M. Westropp   20 April [1871]

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Anecdote of bear reasoning [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 76].

Similarity of forms of ornamentation and implements in widely separate races and ages [Descent 1: 233].

Author:  Hodder Michael Westropp
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 90: 38–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7703

To St G. J. Mivart   21 April [1871]

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"If you feel astonished at my bringing man & brutes so near together in their whole nature (though with a wide hiatus) I feel still more astonished, as I believe, at your judgment on this head. I much wish you had enlarged your concluding sentence a little so as to say whether you consider the ordinary mental faculties so distinct, or whether you confine the enormous difference to spiritual powers including the moral sense.––"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  St George Jackson Mivart
Date:  21 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7703A

From Louisa Albano   22 April 1871

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Replies to CD’s letter;

inquires about CD’s intended terms for Italian translator of Descent; hopes to offer best terms herself.

Author:  Louisa Albano
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 159: 32
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7704

To R. F. Cooke   22 April [1871]

Summary

Detailed questions about illustrations for [forthcoming] Expression.

Asks whether Times review has hurt sales of Descent.

The type on specimen page of Origin [6th ed.] seems clear, but lines are close. The cost is the great point for a wide circulation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Francis Cooke
Date:  22 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 285–6)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7705

To H. M. Westropp   22 April [1871]

Summary

Case of the reasoning bear is analogous to the elephant blowing with trunk to bring object within reach.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hodder Michael Westropp
Date:  22 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 148: 350
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7706

From George Cupples   22 April 1871

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On reception of Descent in Edinburgh.

Anecdote about a dog helping another by separating combatants.

Author:  George Cupples
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 111–12c
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7707

From J. V. Carus   22 April 1871

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On ratios of the sexes in insects, and other facts relating to sexual selection.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 89: 98–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7708

To Francis Darwin   22 April [1871?]

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Please thank Mr Jackson for facts about shrugging, but case not distinct enough. Gestures associated with laughter. Platysma.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  22 Apr [1871?]
Classmark:  DAR 271.4: 3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7708A

To John Murray   23 April [1871]

Summary

Asks JM to lend him his copy of 1st edition (1806) of Charles Bell’s Anatomy of expression.

JM should tell him when he wants new cheap edition of Origin, so he can arrange his plans and time.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Murray
Date:  23 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 240–1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7709

From St G. J. Mivart   23 April 1871

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Feels their conflict lies in the field of philosophy rather than in that of physical science. Regrets that they differ so widely.

Author:  St George Jackson Mivart
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 194
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7710

To Elliott & Fry   23 April [1871]

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Gives permission for the photographer to come to Down, but states that O. J. Rejlander has recently taken several photographs of him which would be available to purchasers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elliott & Fry
Date:  23 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7710A
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