From William Winwood Reade [c. 8 or 9 April 1870]
Summary
Brief observations on expression in Africa.
Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.
The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.
| Author: | William Winwood Reade |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 or 9] Apr 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7069 |
From Francis Galton 8 April 1870
Summary
The mark he had thought a variation is not, and he thinks his infusion still too small even when the blood is defibrinised.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A13–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7161 |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Reade, W. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Reade, W. W. | (1) |
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … par F. Cuvier sur l’instinct”—L’Institut 1839. p. 408 [Flourens 1839] read Quarterly Review …
