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From Williams & Norgate   29 March 1860

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W&N have not yet received the German edition of the Origin.

Recommend French–English and French dictionaries.

Author:  Williams & Norgate
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Mar 1860
Classmark:  DAR 91: 82
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2735
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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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  • … the peahen.”   Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 328 – 329. 7) “In order that woman should …
  • … her adult daughters….”  Descent (1871), vol. 2, p. 329. 8) “Man is more powerful in body …

Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison

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As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage.  He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…

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  • … heard of ‘a few authentic exceptions’ ( Variation 2: 329), and still they kept coming .  By …

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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  • … de la Provence [Darluc 1782–6] 8vo. 1782. Tom I p. 303 to 329 gives account of migratory sheep of …
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