From Frederic Bateman 31 March [1871]
Summary
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 |
To Anne Barnard 31 March [1871]
Summary
Thanks AHB for her letter about girl with pointed ears.
His undying gratitude to her father [J. S. Henslow].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Anne Henslow; Anne Barnard |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.390) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7646 |
To P. B. Mason 31 March [1871]
Summary
Thanks him for information on children with hairy backs.
Discusses paper by J. M. Duncan on the relative weights of male and female infants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Brookes Mason |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.391) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7647 |
From Edouard van Beneden 31 March 1871
Summary
Many thanks for copy of Descent.
Would like to visit CD when he comes to England.
| Author: | Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7648 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bateman, Frederic | (1) |
| Beneden, Édouard van | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Barnard, Anne | (1) |
| Henslow, Anne | (1) |
| Mason, P. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Barnard, Anne | (1) |
| Bateman, Frederic | (1) |
| Beneden, Édouard van | (1) |
| Henslow, Anne | (1) |
John Lort Stokes
Summary
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 …
