From W. E. Darwin 26 March [1867]
Summary
Sends CD a Cardigan Jacket, ‘one of the most delightful inventions of the age’.
Discusses the Duke of Argyll.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5460F |
From J. D. Hooker 26 [and 27] March 1867
Summary
Will be glad to have seeds of plants and CD’s climbing plant, which he has no doubt is Siphocampylus.
Anxious about his baby [Reginald Hooker].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 and 27 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5461 |
From Asa Gray 26 March 1867
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5462 |
To John Lubbock 26 March [1867]
Summary
Close inbreeding and factors acting against it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 26 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 65 (EH 88206509) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5463 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 26 March [1867]
Summary
Answers VOK’s questions regarding the size of forthcoming Variation and gives his consent to a translation.
But if Origin has not yet been translated into Russian, CD thinks it would be a better book to undertake.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 26 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5464 |
From Andrew Smith 26 March 1867
Summary
On Hottentot ideas of beauty in women; their preference for women with large posteriors. [See Descent 2: 345–6.]
Author: | Andrew Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 85: A103–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5465 |
letter | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Smith, Andrew | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Darwin in public and private
Summary
Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
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- … and less selfishness…” Descent (1871), vol. 2, pp. 326 – 327. 5) “The chief distinction …