From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
11 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 150
Summary:
Encourages Forbes to publish his geological observations on Chile.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Encourages Forbes to publish his geological observations on Chile.
Glacial action in the Andes.
Origin of Chilean sheep.
Varieties of S. American horses.
Any notes on idea of human beauty by natives who have little association with Europeans would interest CD.
Also influence of females on males’ choice.
Sends copy of Queries about expression.
Blushing in South American Indians.
Hairlessness of Aymaras and Quechuas. [See Descent 2: 322–3.]
DF’s opinion of Gustav Jenzsch’s book [Mikroskopische Flora und Fauna (1868)]. Encloses extract of a letter from Ferdinand Zirkel also mentioning Jenzsch’s work.
Asks for DF’s observations on the Aymara Indians for use in writing manuscript [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 34–5].