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DCP-LETT-8311

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8692

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8696A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paolo Mantegazza
Date:
28 Dec 1872
Source of text:
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 30.066)
Summary:

Thanks for the letter commending Expression [see 8692]. CD "was not at all sure the work was worth publishing".

Acknowledges receipt of some pamphlets from PM, which his wife will translate.

Regretfully must refuse PM’s offer to translate Expression since it has been promised to another.

Has now received PM’s Physiology of pleasure [Fisiologia del piacere (1870)].

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