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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 33
Summary:

Going to the Gold Coast. Will collect plants for Kew.

Offers his services. Particularly interested in making inquiries for CD about the human race.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 34
Summary:

Will answer CD’s queries from Africa.

Reports extreme amazement of some natives in Gabon upon seeing a white man for the first time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A32–3
Summary:

Horned rams of Guinea sheep.

CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 165–6
Summary:

Expressions of emotions in Gold Coast tribes.

Differences between males and females in sexual characteristics.

Castrated rams lose horns and manes.

Female members of tribes have no difficulty getting the husbands they want.

Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 35
Summary:

Has seen some natives who express surprise by clapping the hand to mouth.

Reports on a tribe that sells its ugliest slaves in order to maintain its uniformly fine appearance.

In America in 1867 Darwinism was a fait accompli. Asa Gray’s religious defence unnecessary after Theodore Parker and Emerson.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 or 9] Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 36
Summary:

Brief observations on expression in Africa.

Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.

The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 37
Summary:

Sends insect that carries dead ants, dead leaves, etc., on its back, as protective imitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 38
Summary:

The Negro’s idea of beauty is the same as white man’s.

Believes the Jollops select for blackness.

Native immunity from coast fever is not complete.

Has found stone instruments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 39
Summary:

Could not go up the Niger, as trading steamers are trying to keep their trade in the dark.

Has seen several albinos, but no blushing. Thinks blacks do blush.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 40
Summary:

W. C. Wells’s theory relating black skin-colour and immunity to malaria may be true. Has seen Negroes come down with fever, but these were generally light in colour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 85: 109–112
Summary:

Ideas of female beauty of W. African Negroes are on the whole the same as those of Europeans.

Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 41
Summary:

Pleased CD is quoting him in Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 42
Summary:

CD is correct; his notes are on the Jollof, not the Tollof, tribe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 170–1
Summary:

On sexual selection and the sense of beauty among the W. African Negroes.

Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 140
Summary:

Sends quotation about Lycurgus and Spartan exposure of infants who were deemed defective.

Bibliographic references on sense of beauty and morals.

Contributor:
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 43
Summary:

Meeting with CD postponed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 44
Summary:

Thinks G. H. Lewes will review Descent in Pall Mall Gazette.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 45
Summary:

Sir Andrew Smith says Hottentots and Kaffirs laugh till they cry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 172–4
Summary:

Various comments on Descent;

on suicide on Gold Coast;

on mulattoes’ not being prolific.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 46
Summary:

Praise for gentle but resolute tone of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project