To William Preyer 30 April 1871
Summary
Is sending copy of Descent.
Thanks for copy of WP’s book [Die Blutkrystalle (1871)].
Discusses shape of external ear.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 30 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 265–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7729 |
To William Preyer 13 May 1871
Summary
Obliged for letter about human ear. Comments on ears and on E. R. Lankester’s idea about the ear-lobe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Date: | 13 May 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 267–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7756 |
From William Preyer 27 April 1871
Summary
Thanks CD for Origin, 5th ed.
Comments on reviews of Descent by the Duke of Argyll and A. R. Wallace.
Lists the Darwinian professors at Jena.
WP’s work shows external ear to have no physiological functions.
W. Müller’s book not yet arrived. Will send Müller’s next works.
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 52, DAR 174: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7721 |
From William Preyer 8 May 1871
Summary
Delighted that CD does not hesitate to follow his theory to its last consequences. "This is far more difficult in England than in Germany."
Wilhelm Müller in his new book [Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie und Physiologie des menschlichen Rückenmarks (1871)], adduces many facts in favour of CD’s theory.
Various observations on the human ear. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 14 n.]
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 49–51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7745 |
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