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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 or 9] Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 36
Summary:

Brief observations on expression in Africa.

Alexander Agassiz is a good investigator, who differs with his father on evolution.

The behaviour of women and savages is a little easier to understand than that of civilised men.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 37
Summary:

Sends insect that carries dead ants, dead leaves, etc., on its back, as protective imitation.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 38
Summary:

The Negro’s idea of beauty is the same as white man’s.

Believes the Jollops select for blackness.

Native immunity from coast fever is not complete.

Has found stone instruments.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 39
Summary:

Could not go up the Niger, as trading steamers are trying to keep their trade in the dark.

Has seen several albinos, but no blushing. Thinks blacks do blush.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 40
Summary:

W. C. Wells’s theory relating black skin-colour and immunity to malaria may be true. Has seen Negroes come down with fever, but these were generally light in colour.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 85: 109–112
Summary:

Ideas of female beauty of W. African Negroes are on the whole the same as those of Europeans.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 41
Summary:

Pleased CD is quoting him in Descent.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 42
Summary:

CD is correct; his notes are on the Jollof, not the Tollof, tribe.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 170–1
Summary:

On sexual selection and the sense of beauty among the W. African Negroes.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 140
Summary:

Sends quotation about Lycurgus and Spartan exposure of infants who were deemed defective.

Bibliographic references on sense of beauty and morals.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 43
Summary:

Meeting with CD postponed.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 44
Summary:

Thinks G. H. Lewes will review Descent in Pall Mall Gazette.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 45
Summary:

Sir Andrew Smith says Hottentots and Kaffirs laugh till they cry.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 172–4
Summary:

Various comments on Descent;

on suicide on Gold Coast;

on mulattoes’ not being prolific.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 46
Summary:

Praise for gentle but resolute tone of Descent.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 47
Summary:

Prefers W. C. Wells’s explanation of the formation of the Nehro type to CD’s sexual selection.

Outlines his view of the origin of man by natural selection.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 48
Summary:

Believes CD will not consider him a good Darwinian since he accepts natural selection only as a secondary law.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 49
Summary:

There is a primary law of growth and innate improvement. Natural selection is a secondary law that operates to "arrange the details". This is not Lamarckian, because will is not involved.

Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [Darwinism (1871)].

Amused by critics who say CD is metaphysically unsophisticated.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 50
Summary:

Surprised at Mivart’s harsh review [Q. Rev. 131 (1871): 47–90], considering courteous tone of his book. Assures CD he has not been converted by Mivart.

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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 69: A49; DAR 176: 51
Summary:

Sees his ideas on conscious and non-conscious intelligence are already in Murphy [J. J. Murphy, Habit and intelligence (1869)].

Encloses an extract from S. W. Baker’s The Albert N’yanza [1866] on the behaviour of the giraffe [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 178], and some references to Baker’s Nile tributaries [1867].

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