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From George Gibbs 31 March 1867
Summary
Finds that after 12 years among north-western Indians he can answer positively only one of CD’s queries about expression. They do blush from shame or anger.
| Author: | George Gibbs |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5479 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 March [1867]
Summary
Pleased that CD approves his idea about caterpillars.
Thinks CD is right about selection in butterflies, but still believes protective adaptation has kept down colours of females.
Cannot yet see action of natural selection in forming the races of man.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: A98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5968 |
To A. R. Wallace 7 March [1867]
Summary
Grateful for addresses of informants, especially that of Rajah James Brooke.
Dispatch of queries on expression. Answers will make interesting appendix to his "Essay on man" [Descent].
Protective adaptation of female butterflies believed probable.
Believes in sexual selection as applied to man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 20–20v) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5992 |
From Henrietta Anne Huxley to Emma Darwin 22 March [1867]
Summary
Observed expression in her baby for CD.
| Author: | Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 287 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6039 |
Document type
| letter | (64) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
| Clarke, Benjamin | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (61) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
| Bates, H. W. | (3) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
