To A. R. Wallace 5 September [1877]
Summary
Further discussion of evidence for sexual selection. Prefers "conscious" to "voluntary" action. Distinguishes features that serve as charms and those that serve as challenges.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11127 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 5 September [1877]
Summary
Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 93–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11128 |
From T. H. Farrer 5 September 1877
Summary
Sends two papers on Roman ruins at Cirencester, which he asks CD to return.
Worm observations.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11129 |
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| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
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As an author, friend and correspondent, Charles Lyell played a crucial role in shaping Darwin's scientific life. Born to a wealthy gentry family in Scotland in 1797, Lyell had a classical and legal education but by the 1820s had become entranced by…
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