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William Swale to Charles Darwin (13th July, 1858)
William Swale, a prominent nurseryman in New Zealand, writes to Darwin to discuss the absence of a native bee in New Zealand. His letter included four bee specimens labeled ‘Naturalised Bee’. Shown in three formats; the original letter (scanned), a…
Thomas Maston to Charles Darwin (5th Februrary, 1879)
A stonemason who has read Origin and Descent would like to read Charles Darwin’s other books but is too poor to afford them
The Fall of Man or, The Loves of the Gorillas, by Richard Grant White (New York, 1871), pp. 46 – 47
The author cites Darwin’s use of Latin in a footnote on p.13 of Descent, vol. 1 which veiled a statement on baboons’ sexual attraction to human females. Here, the author not only translates elements of the Latin into English but also provides an…
The Fall of Man or, The Loves of the Gorillas, by Richard Grant White (New York, 1871), p. 6
The author reassures his audience that he has dealt with his subject matter with great delicacy and therefore, unlike Darwin, not found it necessary “to cloak any part of [the] lecture in the obscurity of a learned language”.
The Descent of Man (London, 1871), Vol.1, p. 273
The final version of the passage in which Darwin used a cleansed, polite discourse to describe a courtship process which better reflected Victorian notions of modest, passive femininity and sexually-driven, active masculinity.
The Descent of Man (London, 1871), Vol. 2, p. 345, n. 53
A discussion of Khoisan or ‘Hottentot’ notions of beauty in women, veiled in Latin to protect the sensibilities of Darwin’s popular audience.
The Descent of Man (London, 1871), Vol. 1, p. 13, n. 7
Darwin’s Latin statement, most likely translated by his son Francis, on certain baboons’ sexual attraction to human females.
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 7
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 7, pp. 134--5.