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From Paolo Mantegazza   19 March 1868

Summary

Sends papers.

Author:  Paolo Mantegazza
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Mar 1868
Classmark:  DAR 171: 36
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6025

From Paolo Mantegazza   10 June 1871

Summary

Michele Lessona will translate Descent into Italian [1871].

Sends his review from Nuova Antologia [17 (1871): 177–94].

In a letter to Archivio per l’Anthropologia he raises some doubts about sexual selection and proposes "Neogenesis" as a complement to natural selection in cases of rapid change.

Author:  Paolo Mantegazza
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 June 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7814

From Paolo Mantegazza   4 May 1872

Summary

CD has been elected Honorary Member of Società Italiana di Antropologia e di Etnologia.

Cranial measurements connect man and apes.

He has shown differences between male and female skulls that bear on sexual selection.

Author:  Paolo Mantegazza
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 May 1872
Classmark:  DAR 171: 38
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8311

From Paolo Mantegazza   23 December 1872

Summary

Ecstatic praise of CD and Expression, which has transformed physiognomy.

Sends his papers on sadness ["Dell’azione del dolore", Gaz. Med. Ital. Lombarda (1866, 1867)]. Sends some observations on physiognomy.

Author:  Paolo Mantegazza
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Dec 1872
Classmark:  DAR 171: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8692
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