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DCP-LETT-6186

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 33
Summary:

Going to the Gold Coast. Will collect plants for Kew.

Offers his services. Particularly interested in making inquiries for CD about the human race.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6754

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Winwood Reade
Date:
21 May [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.371)
Summary:

Thanks WWR for information in answer to his queries concerning expression.

Asks when horns first appear among a breed of sheep on the Guinea coast,

and for information about the gorilla and chimpanzee.

Asks about African ideas of beauty.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6202

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 34
Summary:

Will answer CD’s queries from Africa.

Reports extreme amazement of some natives in Gabon upon seeing a white man for the first time.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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