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From:
Frederick Howlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.27
Summary:

Is grateful for his reply. Hopes he is feeling better. Escaped worst of the winter by expedition to Algeria, though the results were disappointing. Comments on some of his observations. Feels sure [W.?] Ackland will be able to construct a suitable eyepiece.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Newenham Hoare
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 147–8
Summary:

Sends quotations from Xenophon and Horace pointing to sexual selection. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 29 n.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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