From E. J. Pfeiffer [before 26 April 1871]
Summary
Suggests aesthetic sense in animals is merely secondary to sexual selection.
| Author: | Emily Jane Davis; Emily Jane Pfeiffer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 26 Apr 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7411 |
From R. F. Cooke 26 April 1871
Summary
Believes heliotype process is best for book illustrations. Has sent copies [of Descent] to Loescher and Carus.
Is working on an estimate for the cheap [6th] edition of the Origin.
The Times review has not hurt sales of Descent.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 396 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7719 |
To E. J. Pfeiffer 26 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks for EJP’s suggestion that it is fascination rather than aesthetic appreciation that drives sexual selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Jane Davis; Emily Jane Pfeiffer |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1871] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Misc. 14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7719F |
| letter | (3) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Davis, E. J. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
| Pfeiffer, E. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Davis, E. J. | (1) |
| Pfeiffer, E. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Davis, E. J. | (2) |
| Pfeiffer, E. J. | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (1) |
| John Murray | (1) |
4.26 Christmas card caricature, monkeys
Summary
< Back to Introduction Sem’s Christmas card with a caricature of Darwin was not the only thing of its kind. A sale catalogue of 2009, Charles Robert Darwin . . . One Hundred and Two Items, included the front leaf of a greetings card inscribed in…
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- … < Back to Introduction Sem’s Christmas card with a caricature of Darwin was not the …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … appears in Origin 4th ed., p. 466. 52. p. 426. 53. p. 427. This substitution …
