From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.614)
Summary:
Agrees to write a page or two on behalf of Donald MacAlister.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Agrees to write a page or two on behalf of Donald MacAlister.
His thoughts on the lack of horns in domesticated cattle.
Requests visit to Down before he goes on expedition to South and Central Africa.
Dismisses report of cat–rabbit hybrid.
Argues that women are as regular "bread-winners" as men, though generally unrecognised as such, and that they possess the same qualities as men but lack the educational opportunities. Before women can be judged intellectually inferior to men they must share the same environment and opportunities. With "enlightened intellect, united with her wholesome moral nature" woman could help with the "propagation of the best and the survival of the fittest in the human species".