To William Alexander Baillie Hamilton 28 March [1848]
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Sir John Herschel has not received the parcel of "Scientific Instructions", which was posted on the 15th. He requests an accurate search at the Admiralty.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Alexander Baillie Hamilton |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1848] |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (ADM/5580 009075) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1166A |
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Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … to the peahen.” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 328 – 329. 7) “In order that woman should …
Eliza Burt Gamble
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Women have interpreted and applied evolutionary theory in arguments about women’s nature for over a century. Eliza Burt Gamble (1841-1920) was a pioneer in this endeavor. Gamble was an advocate of the Woman Movement, a mother, a writer, and a teacher from…
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- … Relation to Sex , Vol. II (London: John Murray, 1871), 328, 327, The Complete Work of Charles …
2.8 Alphonse Legros medallion
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< Back to Introduction The painter, printmaker and sculptor Alphonse Legros created this bronze medallion with a profile portrait of Darwin in 1881, shortly before the latter’s death. According to a friend of Legros, the writer Thomas Okey, it was…
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- … Queen Victoria , 3 vols, vol. 2 (London: Seaby, 1987), p. 328, no. 3093. Attwood, Artistic …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 2: 3–28. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection.] 119: …
