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To Louis Agassiz 19 August 1868
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Thanks LA for information on sexual differences in the coloration of Amazonian fish. CD was anxious to know how the sexes differed because they are unusual in that the male has the largest share in looking after ova and young.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Date: | 19 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 278) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6323 |
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- … 1868 . See letter from Louis Agassiz, 22 July 1868 and n. 1. The annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science took place in Southampton in 1846; CD was vice-president of the botany and zoology section, and Agassiz delivered a paper on the fishes of the London clay ( Report of the 16th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Southampton in 1846 , p. xv; Transactions of the sections, p. 52). See letter from Albert Günther, …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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