From W. B. Dawkins 31 July 1869
Summary
Reports on prehistoric finds from caves at Rhagatt.
| Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (CB 847) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6847F |
From Charles Lyell 5 May 1869
Summary
Recalls Cuvier’s reaction to Principles of geology.
Comments on Wallace’s article in the Quarterly Review [see 6684].
Not opposed to ARW’s idea that Supreme Will might direct variation.
Quotes passage in letter from ARW arguing for causes other than selection in determining human abilities.
Discusses excavation of lakes by glaciers.
J. P. Lesley does not believe ice-sheets involved in eroding Appalachians.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 May 1869 |
| Classmark: | Lyell 1881, 2: 441; DAR 85: A100–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6728 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … University Press. 1998. Lesley, J. Peter. 1862. Section of coal-measures on the Cape …
- … of the American Philosophical Society 9 (1862–3): 93–109. Lesley, J. Peter. 1866. Notes on …
- … refers to J. Peter Lesley and to Lesley 1862 and Lesley 1866 . Archibald Geikie and …
- … the American ‘Philosophical Society’ for 1862, and another on a projected map, ‘intended …
From R. F. Cooke 29 April 1869
Summary
Confirms a request by CD that Murray’s supply electrotypes of Orchids at most reasonable possible price.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 369 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6719 |
From C. F. Claus 6 February 1869
Summary
Pleased by CD’s good opinion and offer to provide material. Discusses work he would do on cirripedes.
Moritz Wagner’s views on migration of species;
his doubts about Fritz Müller’s views on developmental stages of Crustacea.
| Author: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6605 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bibliography Claus, Carl Friedrich. 1862. Ueber die morphologischen Beziehungen der …
- … groups, including cirripedes ( Claus 1862 ; for the section on cirripedes, see pp. 161– …
- … in Kreuzband abzusenden, habe ich schon 1862 den Versuch gemacht, den Cirripedienleib auf …
- … number of other works, I have already in 1862 made an attempt to trace back the morphology …
From J. J. Moulinié 5 November 1869
Summary
Reinwald will be pleased to publish Descent.
He would also like to publish a Moulinié translation of the latest English edition of Origin. Negotiations with the old publisher are needed.
| Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 274 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6971 |
From Martin Wilckens 25 March 1869
Summary
Sends two of his publications ["Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Fortschritte der Thierzucht", Jahrb. Landwirtsch. (1869) and "Die Aufgaben der landwirtschaftlicher Biotechnik", Landwirtsch. Wochenbl. (1869)].
| Author: | Martin Wilckens |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 67v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6682 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … German editions of Origin (Bronn trans. 1862) and Variation (Carus trans. 1868) and to …
From James Crichton-Browne 1 June 1869
Summary
Discusses the bristling of hair in melancholics and the action of the platysma myoides muscle and the grief muscles in the insane.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 309 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6769 |
From Ernest Faivre 18 February 1869
Summary
One of his students is interested in translating Orchids into French.
| Author: | Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6621 |
From T. H. Farrer 18 September 1869
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion of a paper he has written on papilionaceous flowers.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6898 |
From Camille Dareste 13 December [1869]
Summary
CD’s letter on his behalf made a great impression, but his candidacy nevertheless failed, largely owing to the hostility of Claude Bernard. CD’s opinion sustains his belief that his work will be a service to science.
| Author: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7028 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … work on animal monstrosities, see Dareste 1862 , 1863, and 1867. Dareste later published …
From T. H. Farrer 9 May 1869
Summary
Thanks CD for lesson that it is wrong to call any plant which lives and thrives "degraded".
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6739 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
From J. D. Hooker 15 January 1869
Summary
Criticisms of and suggestions for CD’s draft MS on Nägeli [for Origin, 5th ed.].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6554 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Genera plantarum , see Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83, 1: 859–931. In Origin 5th ed. , p. …
From T. H. Farrer 13 October 1869
Summary
On the fertilisation of Tacsonia and Passiflora.
Encloses a poem, "The Biological Teleologist", written after reading Delpino.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6935 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Pancaldi, Giuliano. 1991. Darwin in Italy. …
From W. C. Tait 11 July 1869
Summary
Drosophyllum lusitanicum.
Believes principle of natural selection can be more widely applied.
Flower structure of Geranium.
| Author: | William Chester Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6825 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, letter from Asa Gray, 4 and 13 October 1862 and n. 2. See also Max Müller 1861 and …
From Victor Masson 29 September 1869
Summary
Asks CD to send 5th ed. of Origin so Mlle Royer can use it in her work. Regret they have upset CD to the extent that he would reproach them so untowardly.
| Author: | V. Masson et fils |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6918 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Two editions had been published (Royer trans. 1862 and 1866). A third edition dated 1870 …
From Camille Dareste 18 November [1869]
Summary
Asks CD to write a letter sponsoring him for the Chair of Comparative Physiology at Paris. There are some who do not think his work on artificial production of monstrosities belongs in physiology.
| Author: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6994 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … research on animal monstrosities, see Dareste 1862 , 1863, and 1867. See Variation 1: 262, …
From T. H. Farrer 28 November 1869
Summary
Agrees that it is wise to delay [publishing?] on Passiflora.
Puts queries he wants CD to send [to Fritz Müller] on bees visiting flowers in winter.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7015 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Order Passifloreæ’, see Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83, 1: 807– 16. Tacsonia has since been …
From John Murray 8 November [1869]
Summary
JM advises CD regarding his relations with Masson, the French publisher of the Origin [1866], and the possibility of Reinwald’s publishing a translation of the 5th edition.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 373 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6978 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … was one of the publishers of Royer trans. 1862 and 1866, and the sole publisher of Royer …
From W. C. Tait 13 April 1869
Summary
Insectivorous plants; Drosophyllum lusitanicum.
Descriptions of the local sheep.
| Author: | William Chester Tait |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6696 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin 5th ed. : On the origin of species by …
From John Brodie Innes 15 October 1869
Summary
R. H. Hutton has given a paper about CD at Liverpool Church Congress.
JBI has seen four milk-white partridges among brown ones this year.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6939 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … who was archbishop of Canterbury from 1862 until his death in 1868. The photograph of CD …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
| Rérolle, Louis | (3) |
| Dareste, Camille | (2) |
| Dawkins, W. B. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
| Rérolle, Louis | (3) |
| Dareste, Camille | (2) |
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
Matches: 28 hits
- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
- … be so’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] ). I have not the least …
- … him from this view ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] ): 'no doubt you are right …
- … Huxley replied ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 January 1862 ): 'I entertain no doubt that …
- … but continued ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] ): 'you say the answer to …
- … but complained ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1862] ): 'To get the degree of …
- … him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether taken …
- … is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual forms: …
- … with his study of Primula and escalated throughout 1862 as he searched for other cases of …
- … 1861, and was published in the society’s journal in March 1862. The paper described the two …
- … in almost daily’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). In a postscript, he mentioned his work …
- … telling Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1862] ): ‘I am nearly sure that daylight is …
- … great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ), ‘I have lately counted one by one …
- … labour over them’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [October 1862] ; see ML 2: 292–3). Other …
- … of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to test his …
- … sets of experiments’ ( letter to M. T. Masters, 24 July [1862] ). The materials that Darwin …
- … case he determined to experiment on Linum in 1862. Soon he was enthralled, especially by the …
- … be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The case was so good that he …
- … Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
- … complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). The three forms had different lengths …
- … who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ), ‘I am almost stark staring mad over …
- … the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was not until 1864 …
- … pleasure to ride’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). But he worried about the resulting …
- … the Book will sell’ ( letter to John Murray, 9 [February 1862] ). To his son, William, his …
- … every flower’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 8 June [1862] ). I never before felt half so …
- … he told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1862] ). But he did not have long to wait. ‘It is …
- … it ‘most valuable’ (letter from George Bentham, 15 May 1862). Orchids was published on 15 May, …
- … all, ‘a success’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] ). a flank-movement on the …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 5 hits
- … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a …
- … edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of the …
- … of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn some of these …
- … in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he mentioned that he was sending …
- … from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition incorporating …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 8 hits
- … in the mud. BEGINNING OF WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of the American …
- … cause. Tension. THE DARWIN BOYS: 1862 In which Darwin reports one …
- … 1856 33 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 14 MARCH 1862 34 JD HOOKER TO C DARWIN, …
- … 1861 115 A GRAY TO CHARLES WRIGHT, 17 APRIL 1862 116 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH 7 MAY …
- … 10 JUNE 1861 121 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 MARCH 1862 122 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 16 DEC 1861 124 A GRAY TO ENGELMANN, 20 FEB 1862 125 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 …
- … 7 JULY 1863 152 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, DECEMBER 1862 153 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 1861 163 C Darwin TO A Gray, 16 OCTOBER 1862 164 C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Matches: 6 hits
- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
- … vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, …
- … a construction suitable for tropical plants. In 1861 and 1862, while preparing Orchids , he was …
- … vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, Darwin purchased for …
- … over the previous two years. In a letter of 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10) …
- … Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862). 3. Asclepias curassavica. …
I beg a million pardons: To John Lubbock, [3 September 1862]
Summary
Alison Pearn looks at a letter Darwin wrote to his neighbour and friend, John Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862.
Matches: 1 hits
- … Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862. …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
Clémence Auguste Royer
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Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to Darwin, [29 October 1862] Henrietta Darwin provides …
- … Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin tells American naturalist Asa …
- … 3681 - Wedgwood, M. S. to Darwin, [before 4 August 1862] Darwin’s niece, Margaret, …
- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March, 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
- … - Darwin to Wedgwood, K. E. S, M. S. & L. C., [4 August 1862] Darwin thanks his “angel …
Floral Dimorphism
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 1 October [1861] To Charles Lyell, 1 April [1862] To Charles Lyell, 14 October …
Have you read the one about....
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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Orchids
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…
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- … SOURCES Books Darwin, Charles 1862. On the various contrivances by which …
- … 3421 —Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker 30 January 1862 Darwin tells Hooker about a …
- … Letter 3662 —Charles Darwin to Asa Gray 23-4 July 1862 Darwin tells Asa Gray, a professor …
- … Darwin’s work with orchids and Chapter 1 of Darwin’s 1862 book On the various …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
Matches: 6 hits
- … briefly mentioned in his Primula paper. In July 1862, Darwin explained to Gray, ‘ I have …
- … of the genus Linum ’, between 11 and 21 December 1862. The paper was read at a meeting of the …
- … to Lythrum , a genus that he had begun researching in 1862 after Hooker had supplied him with …
- … of Lythrum he had been working on since late July 1862. He told Oliver that, ‘ as each form has …
- … of the crossing experiments immediately, but by October 1862, he admitted to Hooker, ‘ I am rather …
- … 117: 50). Darwin released William from counting in November 1862, telling him, ‘ Next year I shall …
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
Matches: 4 hits
- … on Verbascum. Darwin had suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic …
- … vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). Darwin had already written to Hooker of …
- … disturbing the serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though …
- … vol. 10, letter from J. H. Balfour, 14 January 1862 ). According to Hooker, Balfour’s prejudice …
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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- … [1859] Letter to Charles Kingsley, 6 February [1862] Letter from F. W. Farrar, …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Species and varieties
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
Matches: 1 hits
- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
Sexual selection
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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
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- … the Lords' ( to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ) In 1869, Darwin …
