To J. D. Hooker 28 March [1871]
Summary
Sends Hibiscus
and enclosure [Queries about expression?] on chance of "any point being observed" in Morocco.
Murray informs him edition of Descent will probably be 6500 copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 193–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7630 |
To William Ogle 28 [March 1871]
Summary
Thanks WO for his reply to letter of 26 March. Has tried several people and platysma seemed to act, but it is difficult to observe when they shudder.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 28 [Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 10 (EH 88205908) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7631 |
To William Turner 28 March [1871]
Summary
Discusses errors in Descent. Not surprised that WT is not committed to full acceptance of evolution of man.
At work on Expression. Asks about muscles that raise spines of hedgehog and tail coverts of peacock. Asks about influence of mind on capillaries with regard to blushing. Mentions views of James Paget on influence of the mind on nutrition of body parts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5/4a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7632 |
From Harrison Weir 28 March 1871
Summary
Effects of first impregnation on litters from subsequent pregnancies.
Power of selective breeding to produce different varieties.
| Author: | Harrison William Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7633 |
From F. C. Donders 28 March 1871
Summary
Answers to CD’s queries will take time. CD may not be aware of the influence of accommodation on the diameter of the pupil of the eye. Parrots, for example, contract or dilate the pupil independently of amount of light [see Expression, p. 304]. Sends his book on the subject [On the anomalies of accommodation and refraction of the eye (1864)].
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7634 |
To James Crichton-Browne 28 March [1871]
Summary
Asks whether capillary circulation is ever influenced by the mind’s being directed intently to any part of the body.
Has JC-B ever seen idiots blush? JC-B’s MS on blushing is capital.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 335 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7635 |
From William Turner [after 28 March 1871]
Summary
Note on errata in first volume of Descent.
| Author: | William Turner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7637 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Donders, F. C. | (1) |
| Turner, William | (1) |
| Weir, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Turner, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Turner, William | (2) |
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Donders, F. C. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … to the peahen.” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 328 – 329. 7) “In order that woman should …
Eliza Burt Gamble
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Women have interpreted and applied evolutionary theory in arguments about women’s nature for over a century. Eliza Burt Gamble (1841-1920) was a pioneer in this endeavor. Gamble was an advocate of the Woman Movement, a mother, a writer, and a teacher from…
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- … Relation to Sex , Vol. II (London: John Murray, 1871), 328, 327, The Complete Work of Charles …
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … Queen Victoria , 3 vols, vol. 2 (London: Seaby, 1987), p. 328, no. 3093. Attwood, Artistic …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 2: 3–28. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection.] 119: …
