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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 165–6
Summary:

Expressions of emotions in Gold Coast tribes.

Differences between males and females in sexual characteristics.

Castrated rams lose horns and manes.

Female members of tribes have no difficulty getting the husbands they want.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A32–3
Summary:

Horned rams of Guinea sheep.

CD’s queries about expression are too difficult for him to answer.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 35
Summary:

Has seen some natives who express surprise by clapping the hand to mouth.

Reports on a tribe that sells its ugliest slaves in order to maintain its uniformly fine appearance.

In America in 1867 Darwinism was a fait accompli. Asa Gray’s religious defence unnecessary after Theodore Parker and Emerson.

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