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To Michael Foster 6 June [1871]
Summary
Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].
Invites him to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 6 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.419) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7803 |
To F. E. Abbot 6 June [1871]
Summary
Sends subscription for the Index.
FEA’s article ["The intuitional and scientific schools of free religion", Index 15 Apr 1871] is one of the most striking CD has read.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Ellingwood Abbot |
| Date: | 6 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7804 |
From Gerhard Rohlfs 6 June 1871
Summary
Various observations from his experience in Africa relevant to Descent.
Fertility of hybrids of blacks and whites.
Protective coloration of Sahara animals.
Natives’ ideas of female beauty.
| Author: | Gerhard Friedrich (Gerhard) Rohlfs |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 183–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7805 |
To Francis Darwin 6 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".
Has invited Michael Foster to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7806 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Addressee
| Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Abbot, F. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Rohlfs, Gerhard | (1) |
