From:
John Beddoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: A21–3
Summary:
Encloses results of several more years of observation on conjugal selection and hair coloration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Beddoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Aug – 12 Sept 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 85: A13–14
Summary:
Results of CD’s examination of data subvert JB’s former inferences. Will send abstracts from the data for his paper on colour of hair of single and married women 35 to 45 years old ["On the supposed increasing prevalence of dark hair in England", Anthropol. Rev. 1 (1863): 310–12].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Beddoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: A17–18
Summary:
Encloses last instalment of data on colour of women’s hair and conjugal selection. Fears results are inconclusive.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
