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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Edward Burnett Tylor

Date:

25 June 1870

Source of text:

The British Library (Add MS 50254: 33–4)

Summary:

Mentions passage on gestures in EBT’s Early history of mankind [1865].

Asks Tylor whether the deaf and dumb use opposite signs for objects, qualities, etc., of an opposite nature.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

William Robson Scott

To:

Edward Burnett Tylor

Date:

28 June 1870

Source of text:

DAR 177: 124

Summary:

Speculates on the origin of gestures representing good and bad or approval and disapproval;

discusses signs used in teaching the deaf and dumb, particularly the use of opposites [see 7244].

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project