From John Beddoe 13 September 1869
Clifton,
Septr 13 ’69
Dear Sir
Enclosed is the last instalment of my data respecting conjugal selection—1 The dark shades do in this case predominate in the married women; but the numbers of the single are so small that I fear nothing can be made of them—
Believe me | Yours faithfully | John Beddoe
[Enclosure]
| In- & Out-patients British Infirmary2 | |||||||||
| Women between 35 & 45 | |||||||||
| Single | Married | ||||||||
| Red | Fair | Brown | Dark | Black | Red | Fair | Brown | Dark | Black |
| 1 | 3 | 3 | 7.5 | 2.5 | 9 | 12.5 | 39 | 68 | 6 |
| Women between 45 & 50 | |||||||||
| 1.5 | .5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5.5 | 12.5 | 49 | 85 | 11 |
| Total | |||||||||
| 2.5 | 3.5 | 9 | 10.5 | 3.5 | 14.5 | 25 | 88 | 154 | 17.5 |
| ⏟ | ⏟ | ||||||||
| 29 | 299 | ||||||||
CD annotations
Top of letter: ‘I must give up whole case.—’ blue crayon
Footnotes
Beddoe had last supplied CD with data in his letter of 21 August 1869.
Beddoe was physician to the Bristol Royal Infirmary.
Summary
Encloses last instalment of data on colour of women’s hair and conjugal selection. Fears results are inconclusive.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6888
- From
- John Beddoe
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Clifton
- Source of text
- DAR 85: A17–18
- Physical description
- ALS 1p †, table, G.H. Darwin notes 2pp †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6888,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6888.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
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