skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains ""

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
1863::03::26 in date disabled_by_default
1863::03::26 in date disabled_by_default
2 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

From Daniel Oliver   [26 March 1863]

Summary

Discusses the female parts of the Primula flower; the true character of the free placenta is not completely understood.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [26 Mar 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 173: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3894

To J. D. Hooker   26 [March 1863]

thumbnail

Summary

CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.

Geographical distribution during and between glacial periods.

Latent characters and reversion.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  26 [Mar 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 188
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4061
Search:
in keywords
1 Items

Darwin in public and private

Summary

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…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … and less selfishness…” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 326 – 327. 5) “The chief distinction …
letter