To David Forbes 11 December [1860]
Summary
Encourages Forbes to publish his geological observations on Chile.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Forbes |
Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3019F |
To David Forbes [20 March 1868]
Summary
Any notes on idea of human beauty by natives who have little association with Europeans would interest CD.
Also influence of females on males’ choice.
Sends copy of Queries about expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Forbes |
Date: | [20 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6002 |
To David Forbes 7 February [1869]
Summary
Asks for DF’s observations on the Aymara Indians for use in writing manuscript [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 34–5].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Forbes |
Date: | 7 Feb [1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6606 |
To David Forbes 31 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks DF for proofs of his paper on Aymara Indians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Forbes |
Date: | 31 July [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.381) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7292 |
To David Forbes 18 November [1871]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Forbes |
Date: | 18 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8075 |
From David Forbes [after 11 December 1860]
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2621 |
From David Forbes 26 March 1868
Summary
Blushing in South American Indians.
Hairlessness of Aymaras and Quechuas. [See Descent 2: 322–3.]
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6054 |
From David Forbes 30 January 1869
Summary
DF’s opinion of Gustav Jenzsch’s book [Mikroskopische Flora und Fauna (1868)]. Encloses extract of a letter from Ferdinand Zirkel also mentioning Jenzsch’s work.
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 143–143/2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6584 |
From David Forbes 13 June 1870
Summary
Has completed a memoir on the Aymara Indians of Bolivia [J. Ethnol. Soc. n.s. 2 (1870): 193–305] and is going to lecture on them.
Believes he has data relevant to CD’s work on man.
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7228 |
From David Forbes 30 July 1870
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7291 |
From David Forbes 18 February 1871
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7487 |
From David Forbes 22 November [1871]
Summary
Effect of turf covering on the disintegration of rocks. Weathering of rock; relative importance of different agents with different rocks.
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8081 |
From David Forbes 1 March 1872
Author: | David Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8233 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Forbes, David | (5) |