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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.
Mary Treat, ‘Controlling Sex in Butterflies’, The American Naturalist Vol. VII, Number 3 (March, 1873), p. 129
Mary Treat’s 1873 article Controlling Sex in Butterflies. In January 1872, having been asked for his opinion on her research, Darwin praised Treat’s research into butterfly diet and sex and encouraged her to publish her findings.
Lucy Wedgwood to Charles Darwin (1st May, 1865)
A letter from Darwin’s niece, Lucy Wedgwood, containing observations of Oxlips made at Leith Hill Place, Surrey.
