From C. S. Bate 22 October 1871
Summary
Has read in papers about CD’s forthcoming work [Expression]; sends anecdote about a dog visiting a dentist for relief of a toothache – thus showing "moral courage".
| Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8027 |
From H. B. Brady 22 October 1871
Summary
Explains further N. S. Shaler’s view [see 8015] on rattlesnake habits as consistent with natural selection: the rattle attracts rather than alarms its prey.
| Author: | Henry Bowman Brady |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 278 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8028 |
From Osbert Salvin 22 October 1871
Summary
Sends specimen of Prion.
Discusses beaks of flamingo and other birds.
Comments on function of lamellae.
| Author: | Osbert Salvin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8029 |
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| letter | (3) |
Author
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Brady, H. B. | (1) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Brady, H. B. | (1) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (1) |
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…
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