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Darwin’s queries on expression

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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…

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  • … handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller, 22 February …
  • … Correspondence about Darwin’s Questionnaire (click on the letter dates to see the individual letters …
  • … Correspondent Letter date Location …
  • … Blair, R.H. 11 July 1871 Worcester College for the …
  • … Africa)? ] mentioned in JPM Weale letter, but Bowker's answers not found …
  • … Dyaks Brooke, C.A.J. 30 April 1871
  • … Chaumont, F.S.B.F. de 11 March 1871 Woolston, …
  • … Square W London, England enclosed in a letter from Henry Maudsley …
  • … Crichton-Browne, James 3 April 1871 West Riding …
  • … Donders, F.C. 28 March 1871 Utrecht, Netherlands …
  • … South Africa possibly included in letter from Mansel Weale …
  • … Ceylon enclosed in letter from G.H.K. Thwaites …
  • … head forward Mivart, G.J. 26 Jan 1871

Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’.  Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

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  • … shall be a man again & not a horrid grinding machine’  ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 December …
  • … anything which has happened to me for some weeks’  ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ) …
  • … corrections of style, the more grateful I shall be’  ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ) …
  • … who wd ever have thought that I shd. turn parson?’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). …
  • … abt any thing so unimportant as the mind of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February …
  • … thro’ apes & savages at the moral sense of mankind’ ( letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] …
  • … how metaphysics & physics form one great philosophy?’ ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870 …
  • … in thanks for the drawing ( Correspondence  vol. 16, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] …
  • … patients, but it did not confirm Duchenne’s findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March …
  • … muscle’, he complained, ‘is the bane of existence!’ ( letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 ). …
  • … to their belief that all demons and spirits were white ( letter from W. W. Reade, 9 November 1870 …
  • … who sent a sketch of a baby’s brows ( letter from L. C. Wedgwood, [5 May 1870] ). He also wrote to …
  • … is to criticise them? No one but yourself’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 20 May 1870 ). Darwin very …
  • … able to say that I  never  write reviews’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, [22 May 1870] ). St …
  • … if I once began to answer objectors’ ( letter to W. H. Flower, 25 March [1870] ). In his letters …
  • … & valuable labours on the Primates’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 23 April [1870] ). He also …
  • … an Ape differs from a lump of granite’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 22 April 1870 ). …
  • … whatever may have been his “origin” ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 25 April 1870 ). In his …
  • … out seven devils worse than that first!’ ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 22 June 1870 ). In the …
  • … highly important for the welfare of mankind’ ( letter to [H. H. Vivian?], [April or May 1870?] ). …
  • … Bruce, about the possibility of inserting a question in the 1871 census about cousin marriage. …
  • … dark to me and to every one else I suspect’ ( letter from H. B. Jones, 2 August 1870 ). …
  • … to ride the same horse that had thrown him (letter from G. H. Darwin to H. E. Darwin, [21 – 2 …