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From D. Thomas   [after 11 March 1871]

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CD is "bent upon linking the monkey race to us"; DT finds it striking that CD should so resemble an ape.

Author:  D. Thomas
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 11 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 108
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13849

From Frederic Bateman   31 March [1871]

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Sends his work discussing the anatomical seat of the faculty of language [On aphasia (1870)]. Concludes that it may be impossible to find any cerebral centre for speech and that this fact opposes the idea of the descent of man from some lower form.

Author:  Frederic Bateman
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 58
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7155

From Leonard Darwin   [after 4 March 1871]

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Recommends a photographer to CD for Expression.

Author:  Leonard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 4 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 186: 30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7405

From Hensleigh Wedgwood   [21 March 1871]

Summary

Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.

Author:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [21 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 195.1: 54
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7406

From Hensleigh Wedgwood   [before 3 March 1871]

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On "moral sense" in Descent.

Author:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 3 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 88: 41–53
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7470

From J. J. Aubertin   1 March 1871

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Was reminded of CD by his new book [Descent] in a shop;

reports having come on train as far as Bromley in previous summer, but found no means of travelling the seven miles to Down. Might try again.

Author:  John James Aubertin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 159: 125
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7526

From John Tyndall   1 March [1871]

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JT suggests that Ogle call upon him so that they can arrange experiments suitable for his purpose.

Author:  John Tyndall
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 106: C7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7527

From James Murie   2 March 1871

Summary

Thanks for Descent.

He is "driven" from his post.

He has homologised the face muscles of cetaceans and man. Although the former do not show expression, the nose and upper lip muscles are highly developed.

Author:  James Murie
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 321
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7531

From W. R. Greg   2 March [1871?]

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Quotes authority on the decline in height of French army recruits.

Author:  William Rathbone Greg
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Mar [1871?]
Classmark:  DAR 87: 149–50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7532

From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen   2 March 1871

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Dutch translation [of Descent].

Notes about reversion.

Hermaphroditism in fishes.

Polydactylism.

Author:  Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 90: 21–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7533

From A. F. Baillie   3 March 1871

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Rereading Journal of researches, particularly on Buenos Aires and varieties of cattle observed there [pp. 145–6]. Reports a case of a cow in which the characters of the niata and two other breeds were combined.

Author:  Alexander Francis Baillie
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 160: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7536

From J. J. Moulinié   3 March 1871

Summary

French translation of Descent all but complete.

Hopes translation of Origin will soon be finished.

Author:  Jean Jacques Moulinié
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 275
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7538

From Herbert Spencer   3 March 1871

Summary

Thanks CD for copy of Descent; wishes it had appeared earlier so that he could have made use of the facts in his Principles of psychology [2d ed. (1870–2)].

Author:  Herbert Spencer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 177: 228
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7540

From Hensleigh Wedgwood   [3–9 March 1871]

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Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].

Author:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [3–9 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 88: 56–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7542

From J. J. Aubertin   4 March 1871

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Thanks for letter and invitation to come to Down.

Sorry about CD’s bad health; Brazilian climate has improved his own.

Sorry to hear Miss Butler is dead.

Author:  John James Aubertin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 159: 126
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7545

From W. W. Reade   4 March 1871

Summary

Praise for gentle but resolute tone of Descent.

Author:  William Winwood Reade
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 176: 46
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7546

From J. F. McLennan   6 March 1871

Summary

Thanks for copy of Descent. Dining with Vernon Lushington, who is jubilant over the book.

Author:  John Ferguson McLennan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7549

From Arthur Nicols   7 March 1871

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Referring to CD’s passage on monkeys’ acquiring taste for tea, coffee, and tobacco, AN tells of three monkeys he kept in Australia that developed strong taste for rum and smoking tobacco without being taught in any way [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 7 n.].

Author:  Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 87: 19–20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7553

From John Tyndall   8 March [1871]

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Has seen Ogle. His subject [olfactory nerve tissue and absorption of odours] has often occupied JT’s attention.

Author:  John Tyndall
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 106: C8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7556

From Alphonse de Candolle   8 March 1871

Summary

Thanks for Descent.

Reveals that it is his own family that has the movable scalp.

The Franco-Prussian war has held up the publication of the 17th and last volume of the Prodromus.

Author:  Alphonse de Candolle
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 161: 16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7557
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