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DCP-LETT-5440

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[12–17] Mar [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 80–83v)
Summary:

Asks to be kept informed on gaudy caterpillars.

Problems of his work on man; scope and role of sexual selection.

Indulgence of interest in expression is simply a "hobby-horse". Will see whether he can get queries inserted in an Indian newspaper.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 20–20v)
Summary:

Grateful for addresses of informants, especially that of Rajah James Brooke.

Dispatch of queries on expression. Answers will make interesting appendix to his "Essay on man" [Descent].

Protective adaptation of female butterflies believed probable.

Believes in sexual selection as applied to man.

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