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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
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4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1

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< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’ s French-born artist …

William Darwin Fox

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Charles Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, was admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1824, three years before Darwin; the two men became close friends. They corresponded throughout their lives, exchanging accounts of their growing families…

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  • … Charles Darwin’s cousin, William Darwin Fox, was admitted to Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1824, …

St George Jackson Mivart

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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…

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  • … from the children would be a peculiarly bitter blow’ (p. 418). The next steps would be to …
  • … are elsewhere expressly approved by him. Thus he remarks (p. 418): ‘A next step, and one to my mind …
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