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DCP-LETT-6002

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
[20 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
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)
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.

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DCP-LETT-6027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Doubleday
Date:
20 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
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?

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