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From C. W. Nägeli   31 March 1867

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Summarises his 12-page letter in which he responds to CD’s criticisms of his theory of ‘perfectibility’.

Author:  Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Mar 1867
Classmark:  On permanent loan to KULTURAMA Zurich (Inv. 5109_L)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5475F

From J. D. Hooker   31 March 1867

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Baby’s situation hopeless.

E. Perceval Wright on way to Seychelles for collecting.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Mar 1867
Classmark:  DAR 102: 156
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5477

From Joseph Trimble Rothrock to Asa Gray   31 March 1867

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Answers to CD’s questions on expressions among the Atnah and Espyox Indians of Nass River [see Expression, pp. 22, 232, 252, 260].

Discusses the debate in America over the relationship among Indian tribes. JTR does not believe Indians are all of one race; they are as varied as Europeans.

[Forwarded to CD by Asa Gray.]

Author:  Joseph Trimble Rothrock
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  31 Mar 1867
Classmark:  DAR 176: 218
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5478

From George Gibbs   31 March 1867

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Finds that after 12 years among north-western Indians he can answer positively only one of CD’s queries about expression. They do blush from shame or anger.

Author:  George Gibbs
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Mar 1867
Classmark:  DAR 165: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5479
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John Lort Stokes

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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position.  After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…

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  • … on the coast fronting the barrier reef?’ (Stokes 1846 1: 331) Stokes spent his final …