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Thanks WWR for information in answer to his queries concerning expression.

Asks when horns first appear among a breed of sheep on the Guinea coast,

and for information about the gorilla and chimpanzee.

Asks about African ideas of beauty.

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Will answer CD’s queries from Africa.

Reports extreme amazement of some natives in Gabon upon seeing a white man for the first time.

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Requests information on the standard of beauty of savages and on whether the female has any influence in selecting a male.

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Could not go up the Niger, as trading steamers are trying to keep their trade in the dark.

Has seen several albinos, but no blushing. Thinks blacks do blush.

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Sending sheets of his forthcoming work on Africa [Martyrdom of man (1872)] with views that differ from CD’s on music and sexual selection.

The Pall Mall Gazette will review the new [6th] edition of the Origin, together with Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871].

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Horned rams of Guinea sheep.

CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.

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Surprised at Mivart’s harsh review [Q. Rev. 131 (1871): 47–90], considering courteous tone of his book. Assures CD he has not been converted by Mivart.

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Ideas of female beauty of W. African Negroes are on the whole the same as those of Europeans.

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Glad Mrs Darwin likes his preface, but fears she will not like his tone on religion.

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Discusses the development of horns in antelopes. Remarks on the variation within and between the species of Cervus and on their relationship to each other.

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The Negro’s idea of beauty is the same as white man’s.

Believes the Jollops select for blackness.

Native immunity from coast fever is not complete.

Has found stone instruments.