To R. H. Blair [before 16 March 1871]
Summary
Thanks RHB for information on expression in the blind.
Sends queries on expression and asks whether he could answer them with respect to those born blind.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Hugh Blair |
Date: | [before 16 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7588 |
To A. R. Wallace 16 March 1871
Summary
Appreciative response to ARW’s "grand review" of Descent in the Academy [2 (1871–2): 177–82]. Comments in detail on ARW’s criticisms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 16 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7589 |
From R. H. Blair 16 March 1871
Summary
Will be pleased to collect information on the blind for CD when time allows. Generally very few (about one quarter) of blind people entering institutions are born blind.
Author: | Robert Hugh Blair |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7590 |
From George Busk 16 March 1871
Summary
The presence of the inter-condyloid perforation in man no more indicates his simian relations than it does his relations to numerous other animals.
Author: | George Busk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7591 |
letter | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Blair, R. H. | (1) |
Busk, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Blair, R. H. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Blair, R. H. | (2) |
Busk, George | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |