To Charles Lyell 15 April [1860]
Summary
Has resolved not to correct Owen’s misrepresentations in his review of Origin.
Discusses at length the theological implications of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.208) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2761 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
4.15 George Cruikshank, comic drawing
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< Back to Introduction A sheet of comic drawings titled ‘Comparative anatomy à la Darwin’, is signed by George Cruikshank junior, who has been variously identified as the great-nephew or the illegitimate son of his more famous namesake. Unfortunately…
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Experimenting with emotions
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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…
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- … of children’, Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix III, p. 415 ). Darwin’s study of emotional …
Darwin’s observations on his children
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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…
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- … Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children,[1] began the research that …
