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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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  • … |  Editors and critics  |  Assistants Darwins correspondence helps bring to light a
  • community. Here is a selection of letters exchanged between Darwin and his workforce of women
  • Observers Women: Letter 1194 - Darwin to Whitby, M. A. T., [12 August
  • silkworm breeds, or peculiarities in inheritance. Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to
  • observations of catsinstinctive behaviour. Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, …
  • to artificially fertilise plants in her garden. Letter 4523 - Wedgwood, L. C. to
  • wife of American naturalist Asa Gray, responds to Darwins queries about Expression
  • Henrietta. Letter 7179 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [5 May 1870] …
  • two of them into his bedroom. Letter 5602 - Sutton, S. to Darwin, [8 August 1867] …
  • 5705 - Haast, J. F. J. von to Darwin, [4 December 1867] Explorer and geologist Haast
  • the wallpaper. Letter 5756 - Langton, E. & C. to Wedgwood S. E., [after 9
  • Letter 1701 - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June 1855] Margaretta Hare Morris
  • Lychnis diurna. Letter 8168 - Ruck, A. R . to Darwin, H., [20 January 1872] …
  • lawn. Letter 8224 - Darwin to Ruck, A. R., [24 February 1872] Darwin
  • Letter 1701  - Morris, M. H. to Prior, R. C. A., [17 June 1855] Margaretta Hare Morris
  • garden ”. Letter 6083  - Casparay, J. X. R. to Darwin, [2 April 1868] …
  • Letter 5585  - Darwin to Darwin, H. E., [26 July 1867] Darwin praises Henriettas

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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  • When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect
  • expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to
  • was the collection of observations on a global scale. Darwin was especially interested in peoples
  • cultural and conventional, or instinctive and universal. Darwin used his existing correspondence
  • and with the mouth a little drawn back at the corners?” Darwins questionnaire was an extension of
  • Correspondence about Darwins Questionnaire (click on the letter dates to see the individual letters
  • Correspondent Letter date Location
  • Barber, Mary E. [after Feb 1867] [Grahamstown, Cape
  • nodding vertically Blair, R.H. 11 July
  • Bowker, J.H. [10 Dec 1867] [Cape of Good Hope (South
  • Fuegians Brooke, C.A.J. 30 Nov 1870
  • Dyaks Brooke, C.A.J. 30 April 1871
  • Aborigines Chaumont, F.S.B.F. de 11 March
  • Square W London, England enclosed in a letter from Henry Maudsley
  • Darwin, Francis 20 June 1867 Unknown? …
  • New University Club, St. James's Street, S.W., London, England pouting
  • N. W. Indians Glenie, S.O. 22 July 1868
  • G.H.K. Thwaites Glenie, S.O. [July 1868] …
  • Egypt] possibly included in letter(s) from Asa Gray Nile
  • Reade, Winwood W. [c.8 or 9 Apr 1870] Accra, West
  • in Hottentots Smyth, R. Brough 13 Aug 1868
  • passing query to others Sutton, Seth 8 Aug