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From C. C. Babington   16 March 1877

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Thinks flowers of Hottonia project from the stem nearly horizontally, perhaps slightly upwards.

Sorry that he cannot help with Pulmonaria angustifolia.

Author:  Charles Cardale Babington
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Mar 1877
Classmark:  DAR 111: B49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10894

To C. E. Norton   16 March 1877

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Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s work [Philosophical discussions (1877)].

Gladstone visited recently, and they discussed the future role of the United States as a world power.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Eliot Norton
Date:  16 Mar 1877
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1596)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10895

From R. F. Cooke   16 March 1877

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Sends cheques in payment of CD’s share of profits on Cross and self-fertilisation, now nearly exhausted,

and the latest printing of Origin.

Author:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Mar 1877
Classmark:  DAR 171: 485
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10896
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3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…

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  • … < Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The …

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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  • … inventive genius…”   Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 316 – 317. 4) “Difference in the …
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