From William Hepworth Dixon 16 April 1863
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Thinks CD’s letter ["The doctrine of heterogeny", Collected papers 2: 78–80] will appear "with a clearer field and to better effect" if delayed a week, since next issue [of Athenæum] has Lyell’s reply to Hugh Falconer, and W. B. Carpenter’s report on the Abbéville jaw.
| Author: | William Hepworth Dixon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4102 |
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4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … < Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a …
Boat Memory
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Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…
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- … very favourable specimen of the race’ ( Narrative 1: 416). After FitzRoy realised that his …
