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From Thomas Stewardson    16 April 1860

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CD elected correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

Author:  Thomas Stewardson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Apr 1860
Classmark:  DAR 229: 3, 230: 4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2761A
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4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy

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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…

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  • … physiognomy was not, however, restricted to the face. In his letter to Darwin he explained, ‘I wish …
  • … was anxious on occasion to disprove such associations. In a letter to Lyell of 21 August 1861, …
  • … and to Gray, 17 Sept. [1861] (DCP-LETT-3256]. Simms’s letter to Darwin, 14 Sept. 1874 (DCP-LETT-9637 …