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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
7 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 12)
Summary:

CD’s Variation is in printer’s hands.

Orchid self-sterility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
22 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 13)
Summary:

Observations on orchid self-sterility.

Wants information on characters that may have originated through sexual selection in lower animals.

Encloses queries on expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f. 76)
Summary:

ARW’s explanation of protective value of conspicuous coloration is ingenious.

CD still holds to sexual selection with respect to beauty in male butterflies.

Sexual selection and the races of man.

Expression of emotions is another subject he plans to include in his essay [Descent].

Asks ARW to suggest an observer in Malay Archipelago to whom he might send queries [on expression].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project