To Octavius Pickard-Cambridge [before 20 February 1874]

Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9304.xml.

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9304,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9304

Summary

Discusses meaning of term "sexual selection".

Comments on variability in males.

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-9304
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Date: [before 20 Feb 1874]
Sent from: Down
Source of text: American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.437)
Physical description: 4pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22.