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From Robert Swinhoe 14 March 1871
Summary
Is leaving for Ningpo; asks CD for another copy of his [Queries about expression], which he will try to answer.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 335 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7580 |
From W. R. Greg 14 March [1871]
Summary
Comments on various points in Descent: proportion of sexes, moral sentiments in animals, etc. Encloses "packet of data" [missing].
| Author: | William Rathbone Greg |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 127–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7581 |
From F. C. Donders 14 March 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for Descent.
Sends a copy of his oratio inauguralis on De harmonie van het dierlijke leven [1848] in which he espoused evolution, but did not see the influence of natural selection.
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7582 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 14 March 1871
Summary
Russian translation of Descent in progress, but the Minister of Interior has banned CD’s work and the book will be seized.
His foolish brother-in-law, Mayor of Montmartre, attempted to defend their section against the government.
CD’s queries on man and camels have gone to Alexander [Kovalevsky] in Sinai.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7583 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Donders, F. C. | (1) |
| Greg, W. R. | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Donders, F. C. | (1) |
| Greg, W. R. | (1) |
| Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
