From Rudolf Suchsland 2 April 1866
Summary
In response to a letter from RS’s father [translation enclosed] Schweizerbart has suggested H. B. Geinitz revise Bronn’s edition of the Origin, but RS doubts he is suitable.
Author: | Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5045 |
From W. E. Darwin 20 June [1866]
Summary
Thinks Rhamnus is a case of a dimorphic plant that has become dioecious.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5128 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Forms of …
From Asa Gray 7 August 1866
Summary
Appleton’s will not print a new edition of Origin.
AG has read sheets of new English edition [4th] and is much pleased by the passage on Richard Owen in the historical sketch.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5184 |
From Thomas Rivers 17 May 1866
Summary
Will be sure to send the Cytisus and Laburnum blooms when they flower.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5094 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, 28 December [1862] , and Correspondence vol. 11, letter to …
From L. E. Becker 28 December [1866]
Summary
Thanks for "Climbing plants" and other papers [as requested in 5316].
Sends specimens of a variety of Primula not mentioned by CD [in Primula paper, Collected papers 2: 45–63?].
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5327 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Forms of …
From Charles Pritchard 8 October 1866
Summary
Sends sermon he preached at the BAAS Nottingham meeting ["The continuity of the schemes of nature and revelation" (1866)], in which he disagrees with CD on the gradual genesis of the human eye by natural selection.
Author: | Charles Pritchard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5234 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … C. Pritchard 1866 , pp. vii–viii). Until 1862, Pritchard had been headmaster of Clapham …
From John Lubbock 4 August 1866
Summary
Returns Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5179 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] …
To Mary Elizabeth Lyell [19? October 1866]
Summary
Mary Somerville may use diagrams from Orchids [in her Molecular and microscopic science (1869)], but permission should be obtained from John Murray.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
Date: | [19? Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (Dep. c. 370, folder MSD-1: on loan from Somerville College, Oxford) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5249 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Somerville, Mary. 1869. On molecular and …
To Philip Lutley Sclater 6 January [1866]
Summary
Discussion of ducks. CD asks for information on a domestic Chinese race about which Robert Swinhoe wrote to CD. Compares Chinese duck with Anas poecilorhyncha and Boschas.
Notes improvement in health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 6 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.311) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4970 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from Robert Swinhoe, 12 November 1862 ). No reply from Sclater has been found; in …
From J. D. Hooker 4 February 1866
Summary
Asks CD whether he knows of a medicine to check vomiting – for a friend dying from starvation as a result.
Duke of Somerset is looking for two naturalists for survey ship to Korea and Strait of Magellan.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4996 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … for the East India Company from 1840 until 1862 ( Buchanan 1908 , pp. 441–2). Campbell …
From James Shaw 14 February 1866
Summary
Reports instances of birds admiring their images in mirrors or on pictures.
Author: | James Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5005 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … school of Tynron, Dumfriesshire, from 1862; this post enabled him to devote much time to …
From Julius Victor Carus 7 November 1866
Summary
JVC has been asked by Schweizerbart [CD’s German publisher] to revise H. G. Bronn’s translation of Origin, and he will be pleased to try to do it.
Asks CD’s advice on what to do about Bronn’s notes and concluding chapter, with which JVC disagrees. Would CD agree to omission?
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5269 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … by Heinrich Georg Bronn , who died in 1862. Thomas Henry Huxley had recommended Carus for …
To Cuthbert Collingwood 16 February [1866]
Summary
Regrets that his health prevents their meeting, but offers some suggestions for the expedition to the Malay Archipelago and coast of China: the search of caverns in the Malay Archipelago for fossil bones, deep sea dredging in the tropics, glacial action in any moderately steep mountains, means of geographical distribution, the history of domestic animals in these regions, and gestures and expressions of real savages as compared with our civilised expressions. [See 5008 and 5011.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Cuthbert Collingwood |
Date: | 16 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5008B |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] and n. 8. For the scope of CD’s earlier …
From Fritz Müller 1 and 3 October 1866
Summary
Discusses dimorphism of Oxalis; one form has 99% sterile anthers. Has found three kinds of fertile anthers.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 and 3 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 99; DAR 157a: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5226 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] ]Forms …
From Ernst Haeckel 28 January 1866
Summary
Discusses exchange of photographs with German scientists.
Comments on attitudes of German scientists toward CD’s theory.
Names several scientists who exchanged photographs: Braun, Virchow, Leydig, and Dohrn.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4985 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … his professorship of botany at Jena in 1862; from 1864, he lived elsewhere as a private …
To J. D. Hooker 4 April [1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 282, 282b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5046 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
From J. T. Moggridge 5 and 6 July [1866]
Summary
Sends onion and mint seeds.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 and 6 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5147 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … William Erasmus Darwin and dated 28 August 1862, are in DAR 109: A3; see Correspondence …
From W. B. Tegetmeier 12 September 1866
Summary
Has had the blocks cut as requested and forwards the proofs.
Encloses article on habits of jungle fowl.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5211 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the Zoological Society of London since 1862 ( DNB ). No record of the date of the council …
From Lydia Ernestine Becker 22 December 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for previous communications. Asks him to send a paper relating to flowers to be read at first meeting of her ladies’ literary and scientific society.
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5316 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77– 96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] ‘Two …
To Fritz Müller [late December 1866 and] 1 January 1867
Summary
Thanks for observations on dimorphic plants. Dimorphism prevalent in certain groups throughout the world.
Retarded fertilisation in certain orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 31 Dec 1866 and 1 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5331 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Joseph Dalton Hooker (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83; see letter to Fritz Müller, 23 August [ …
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Caspary, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
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Gibson, G. S. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
Henslow, George | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (2) |
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Müller, Fritz | (3) |
Pritchard, Charles | (1) |
Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
Rolle, Friedrich | (2) |
Samuelson, James | (1) |
Shaw, James | (3) |
Suchsland, Rudolf | (2) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Wood, S. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Müller, Fritz | (6) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (82) |
Hooker, J. D. | (14) |
Müller, Fritz | (9) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
Matches: 28 hits
- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
- … be so’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] ). I have not the least …
- … him from this view ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] ): 'no doubt you are right …
- … Huxley replied ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 January 1862 ): 'I entertain no doubt that …
- … but continued ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] ): 'you say the answer to …
- … but complained ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1862] ): 'To get the degree of …
- … him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether taken …
- … is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual forms: …
- … with his study of Primula and escalated throughout 1862 as he searched for other cases of …
- … 1861, and was published in the society’s journal in March 1862. The paper described the two …
- … in almost daily’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). In a postscript, he mentioned his work …
- … telling Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1862] ): ‘I am nearly sure that daylight is …
- … great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ), ‘I have lately counted one by one …
- … labour over them’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [October 1862] ; see ML 2: 292–3). Other …
- … of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to test his …
- … sets of experiments’ ( letter to M. T. Masters, 24 July [1862] ). The materials that Darwin …
- … case he determined to experiment on Linum in 1862. Soon he was enthralled, especially by the …
- … be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The case was so good that he …
- … Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
- … complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). The three forms had different lengths …
- … who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ), ‘I am almost stark staring mad over …
- … the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was not until 1864 …
- … pleasure to ride’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). But he worried about the resulting …
- … the Book will sell’ ( letter to John Murray, 9 [February 1862] ). To his son, William, his …
- … every flower’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 8 June [1862] ). I never before felt half so …
- … he told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1862] ). But he did not have long to wait. ‘It is …
- … it ‘most valuable’ (letter from George Bentham, 15 May 1862). Orchids was published on 15 May, …
- … all, ‘a success’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] ). a flank-movement on the …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 5 hits
- … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a …
- … edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of the …
- … of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn some of these …
- … in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he mentioned that he was sending …
- … from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition incorporating …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 8 hits
- … in the mud. BEGINNING OF WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of the American …
- … cause. Tension. THE DARWIN BOYS: 1862 In which Darwin reports one …
- … 1856 33 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 14 MARCH 1862 34 JD HOOKER TO C DARWIN, …
- … 1861 115 A GRAY TO CHARLES WRIGHT, 17 APRIL 1862 116 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH 7 MAY …
- … 10 JUNE 1861 121 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 MARCH 1862 122 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 16 DEC 1861 124 A GRAY TO ENGELMANN, 20 FEB 1862 125 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 …
- … 7 JULY 1863 152 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, DECEMBER 1862 153 JD HOOKER TO C …
- … 1861 163 C Darwin TO A Gray, 16 OCTOBER 1862 164 C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Matches: 6 hits
- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
- … vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, …
- … a construction suitable for tropical plants. In 1861 and 1862, while preparing Orchids , he was …
- … vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, Darwin purchased for …
- … over the previous two years. In a letter of 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10) …
- … Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862). 3. Asclepias curassavica. …
I beg a million pardons: To John Lubbock, [3 September 1862]
Summary
Alison Pearn looks at a letter Darwin wrote to his neighbour and friend, John Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862.
Matches: 1 hits
- … Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862. …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
Summary
This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
Clémence Auguste Royer
Summary
Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to Darwin, [29 October 1862] Henrietta Darwin provides …
- … Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin tells American naturalist Asa …
- … 3681 - Wedgwood, M. S. to Darwin, [before 4 August 1862] Darwin’s niece, Margaret, …
- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March, 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
- … - Darwin to Wedgwood, K. E. S, M. S. & L. C., [4 August 1862] Darwin thanks his “angel …
Floral Dimorphism
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…
Darwin & Glen Roy
Summary
Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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- … 1 October [1861] To Charles Lyell, 1 April [1862] To Charles Lyell, 14 October …
Have you read the one about....
Summary
... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.
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- … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …
Orchids
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…
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- … SOURCES Books Darwin, Charles 1862. On the various contrivances by which …
- … 3421 —Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker 30 January 1862 Darwin tells Hooker about a …
- … Letter 3662 —Charles Darwin to Asa Gray 23-4 July 1862 Darwin tells Asa Gray, a professor …
- … Darwin’s work with orchids and Chapter 1 of Darwin’s 1862 book On the various …
Forms of flowers
Summary
Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
Matches: 6 hits
- … briefly mentioned in his Primula paper. In July 1862, Darwin explained to Gray, ‘ I have …
- … of the genus Linum ’, between 11 and 21 December 1862. The paper was read at a meeting of the …
- … to Lythrum , a genus that he had begun researching in 1862 after Hooker had supplied him with …
- … of Lythrum he had been working on since late July 1862. He told Oliver that, ‘ as each form has …
- … of the crossing experiments immediately, but by October 1862, he admitted to Hooker, ‘ I am rather …
- … 117: 50). Darwin released William from counting in November 1862, telling him, ‘ Next year I shall …
Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … on Verbascum. Darwin had suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic …
- … vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). Darwin had already written to Hooker of …
- … disturbing the serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though …
- … vol. 10, letter from J. H. Balfour, 14 January 1862 ). According to Hooker, Balfour’s prejudice …
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…
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- … [1859] Letter to Charles Kingsley, 6 February [1862] Letter from F. W. Farrar, …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Species and varieties
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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
Sexual selection
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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…
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- … the Lords' ( to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ) In 1869, Darwin …