From Alexander Agassiz [before 1 June 1871]
Summary
Instances of sexual differences in viviparous fishes, suggested by reading chapters on sexual selection [in Descent] and by Mivart’s Genesis of species.
Notes on echinoderms.
| Author: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 June 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A43–6 DAR 89: 29–31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7415 |
From Hugh Browne June 1871
Summary
Believes his letter of 17 Apr bears also on vol. 1 of Descent.
Ability to move ears is common in his family.
Similarity of foot of man to that of gorilla continues beyond foetal stage.
Invites CD to stay overnight if visiting the area.
| Author: | Hugh Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 330 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7696 |
To Edward Suess 1 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for his election to the Austrian Imperial Academy.
Is sorry ES has suffered in health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Eduard Suess |
| Date: | 1 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.397) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7792 |
To Alexander Agassiz 1 June [1871]
Summary
Discusses homologies in various animal groups.
Comments on Mivart [Genesis of species].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Agassiz |
| Date: | 1 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7793 |
To C. V. Riley 1 June [1871]
Summary
Comments on CVR’s book [Third annual report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of Missouri (1871)].
Discusses mimetic insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Valentine Riley |
| Date: | 1 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | Profiles in History (dealers) (December 1996) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7794 |
From Thomas Bradfield 1 June 1871
Summary
Instance of a dog able to discriminate a note played out of tune. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 569.]
| Author: | Thomas Bradfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 181–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7795 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
| Bradfield, Thomas | (1) |
| Browne, Hugh | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (1) |
| Riley, C. V. | (1) |
| Suess, Eduard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Agassiz, Alexander | (2) |
| Bradfield, Thomas | (1) |
| Browne, Hugh | (1) |
| Riley, C. V. | (1) |
| Suess, Eduard | (1) |
