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From:
Paolo Mantegazza
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 38
Summary:

CD has been elected Honorary Member of Società Italiana di Antropologia e di Etnologia.

Cranial measurements connect man and apes.

He has shown differences between male and female skulls that bear on sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Paolo Mantegazza
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 39
Summary:

Ecstatic praise of CD and Expression, which has transformed physiognomy.

Sends his papers on sadness ["Dell’azione del dolore", Gaz. Med. Ital. Lombarda (1866, 1867)]. Sends some observations on physiognomy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project