To William Walmisley Baxter 23 September [1857–9?]
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The returned gloves are similar to some he has already, and he would prefer a pair with stiffer bristles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1857-9] |
| Classmark: | Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh (dealers) (4 February 2009) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2142F |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
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| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … making. British Journal of the History of Science 6: 9–23 [in a special issue on ‘Descent of …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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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- … 1814] & at the end of Congo voyage [R. Brown 1818]. (Hooker 923) 7 read Decandolle …
