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To David Forbes [20 March 1868]
Summary
Any notes on idea of human beauty by natives who have little association with Europeans would interest CD.
Also influence of females on males’ choice.
Sends copy of Queries about expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | David Forbes |
| Date: | [20 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6002 |
To Henry Doubleday 20 March [1868]
Summary
CD asks about HD’s observation of sexual call of Coleoptera.
Also comments on statements by collectors that they breed more females than males from caterpillars. CD had thought this might be accounted for by the collection of largest and finest caterpillars, but Alexander Wallace says the collectors take large and small equally. Does HD agree with Wallace?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Doubleday |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6027 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Addressee
| Doubleday, Henry | (1) |
| Forbes, David | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (1) |
| Forbes, David | (1) |
