To John Murray 23 September [1871]
Summary
Has been so unwell that he could do absolutely nothing on Origin [6th ed.]. A new chapter seven has cost much labour.
Sorry to hear R. I. Murchison is ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 234–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7964 |
To Chauncey Wright 23 September [1871]
Summary
Forwards a letter. Has distributed 220 copies of the pamphlet [Darwinism 1871].
Thomas Henry Huxley has sent review of St George Jackson Mivart’s On the genesis of species and his review of Descent in Quarterly Review (Mivart 1871a and [Mivart] 1871c) to the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76] .
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Chauncey Wright |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1871] |
| Classmark: | Massachusetts Historical Society (George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection, box 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7964F |
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Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … making. British Journal of the History of Science 6: 9–23 [in a special issue on ‘Descent of …
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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- … 1814] & at the end of Congo voyage [R. Brown 1818]. (Hooker 923) 7 read Decandolle …
