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To Hubert Airy   27 January [1876?]

Summary

Agrees to aid HA in applying for membership in a society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hubert Airy
Date:  27 Jan [1876?]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10369

To Hubert Airy   5 April [1871]

Summary

Discusses loss of voluntary movement of ears in man and monkey.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hubert Airy
Date:  5 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7659

To Hubert Airy   10 [December] 1871

Summary

Discusses movement of ears and contraction of the platysma.

Discusses phyllotaxy, citing work of Carl Nägeli and Chauncey Wright.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hubert Airy
Date:  10 [Dec] 1871
Classmark:  DAR 143: 16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8060

To Hubert Airy?   9 June [1872?]

Summary

Agrees to read paper; warns he lacks mathematical knowledge.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hubert Airy
Date:  9 June [1872?]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.408)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8377

To Hubert Airy   24 August 1872

Summary

CD’s son Leonard of the Royal Engineers has applied to Sir George Biddell Airy to be an observer on the Venus Expedition. Leonard failed to mention his qualifications, which CD now relates with the request that HA draw them to his father’s attention.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hubert Airy
Date:  24 Aug 1872
Classmark:  CUL: Royal Greenwich Observatory archives 6/273 (section 3–4: 348–9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8486A

To Hubert Airy   [before 21 January 1873]

Summary

Sends HA’s paper ["On leaf arrangement"] with a supporting note [from CD] to Royal Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hubert Airy
Date:  [before 21 Jan 1873]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS. Add. 7656: RS899)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8744
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