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To W. E. Darwin   15 March [1871]

Summary

Wants WED to thank F. de Chaumont for some valuable observations.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  15 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection (RAMC/473/1). Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11936

From D. Thomas   [after 11 March 1871]

Summary

CD is "bent upon linking the monkey race to us"; DT finds it striking that CD should so resemble an ape.

Author:  D. Thomas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 11 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 108
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13849

To Thomas Guthrie?   30 March [1871]

Summary

Sends correspondent a £25 subscription for George Cupples.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Guthrie
Date:  30 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  National Library of Medicine, Bethesda (History of Medicine Division, Modern Manuscripts Collection MS C 1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7151

From Frederic Bateman   31 March [1871]

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Sends his work discussing the anatomical seat of the faculty of language [On aphasia (1870)]. Concludes that it may be impossible to find any cerebral centre for speech and that this fact opposes the idea of the descent of man from some lower form.

Author:  Frederic Bateman
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 58
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7155

From Leonard Darwin   [after 4 March 1871]

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Recommends a photographer to CD for Expression.

Author:  Leonard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 4 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 186: 30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7405

From Hensleigh Wedgwood   [21 March 1871]

Summary

Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.

Author:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [21 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 195.1: 54
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7406

From Hensleigh Wedgwood   [before 3 March 1871]

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On "moral sense" in Descent.

Author:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 3 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 88: 41–53
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7470

To John Tyndall   1 March [1871]

Summary

Ogle will keep JT’s suggestion in mind in observing less hairy races of man and the lower animals.

Asks JT whether he can help Ogle on a troublesome point on the colour of tissues with olfactory nerves, and the relation of colour to the absorption of odours. Does JT’s respirator deprive odorous substances of their smell?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Tyndall
Date:  1 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 261.8: 8 (EH 88205946)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7524

To John Tyndall   1 March [1871]

Summary

Ogle is unacquainted with JT; would be proud and pleased to call on him. CD likes what little he has seen of him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Tyndall
Date:  1 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 261.8: 9 (EH 88205947)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7525

From J. J. Aubertin   1 March 1871

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Was reminded of CD by his new book [Descent] in a shop;

reports having come on train as far as Bromley in previous summer, but found no means of travelling the seven miles to Down. Might try again.

Author:  John James Aubertin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 159: 125
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7526

From John Tyndall   1 March [1871]

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JT suggests that Ogle call upon him so that they can arrange experiments suitable for his purpose.

Author:  John Tyndall
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 106: C7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7527

From James Murie   2 March 1871

Summary

Thanks for Descent.

He is "driven" from his post.

He has homologised the face muscles of cetaceans and man. Although the former do not show expression, the nose and upper lip muscles are highly developed.

Author:  James Murie
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 321
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7531

From W. R. Greg   2 March [1871?]

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Quotes authority on the decline in height of French army recruits.

Author:  William Rathbone Greg
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Mar [1871?]
Classmark:  DAR 87: 149–50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7532

From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen   2 March 1871

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Dutch translation [of Descent].

Notes about reversion.

Hermaphroditism in fishes.

Polydactylism.

Author:  Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 90: 21–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7533

To Ernst Haeckel   3 March 1871

Summary

Comments on Descent.

EH’s refusal of position at Vienna.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:  3 Mar 1871
Classmark:  Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/25 [9878]
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7534

To Joseph Wolf   3 March 1871

Summary

Asks for a drawing from life of a "laughing monkey" (Cynopithecus niger) for Expression [p. 136].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Wolf
Date:  3 Mar 1871
Classmark:  Palmer 1895, p. 193
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7535

From A. F. Baillie   3 March 1871

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Rereading Journal of researches, particularly on Buenos Aires and varieties of cattle observed there [pp. 145–6]. Reports a case of a cow in which the characters of the niata and two other breeds were combined.

Author:  Alexander Francis Baillie
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 160: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7536

To Hensleigh Wedgwood   3 March [1871]

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Admits pointer illustration is faulty.

Discusses shame, remorse, social instincts, approbation, and other topics discussed in Descent, ch. 4. "But as yet I nail my colours to the mast."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:  3 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 88: 24, 54–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7537

From J. J. Moulinié   3 March 1871

Summary

French translation of Descent all but complete.

Hopes translation of Origin will soon be finished.

Author:  Jean Jacques Moulinié
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 275
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7538

To J. J. Aubertin   3 March [1871]

Summary

Invites him to visit.

Miss Butler is dead.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John James Aubertin
Date:  3 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7539
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