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To ?   7 April [1871]

Summary

Asks correspondent to thank Thomas Laycock for his references. CD has been away from home and has not yet consulted his copy of Laycock’s Mind and brain [1860].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Unidentified
Date:  7 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  R. M. Smythe (dealer) (November 1998)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6102A

From J. E. Gray   7 April 1871

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Summary

Sexual differences in coloration in Lemur macaco.

Author:  John Edward Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 88: 98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7663

From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen   7 April 1871

Summary

On some errata in Descent.

Sends extracts from a statistical study giving proportion of sexes in [population of] Netherlands.

Author:  Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 88: 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7664

To Thomas Woolner   7 April [1871]

Summary

Asks TW to persuade painters to observe how far down body blush extends on models.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Woolner
Date:  7 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 148: 381, Woolner 1917, p. 288
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7665

To James Crichton-Browne   7 April [1871]

Summary

Thanks for information about blushing of idiots.

Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".

Thanks for photographs.

Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.

Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Crichton-Browne
Date:  7 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 336
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7666