skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains ""

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
letter in document-type disabled_by_default
letter in document-type disabled_by_default
1863::09::23 in date disabled_by_default
1863::09::23 in date disabled_by_default
1 Item
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

From Emma Darwin to John Scott   23 September [1863]

thumbnail

Summary

CD too unwell to read. JS should not send Primula paper MS until CD returns home.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott
Date:  23 Sept [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 93: B1–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4302
Search:
in keywords
2 Items

Darwin on race and gender

Summary

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…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … making. British Journal of the History of Science 6: 9–23 [in a special issue on ‘Descent of …

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…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … 1814] & at the end of Congo voyage [R. Brown 1818]. (Hooker 923) 7  read Decandolle …