The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

by Charles Darwin , Edited by Frederick Burkhardt , James Secord , The Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project

• ISBN13: 9780521859318
• ISBN10: 052185931X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

During 1867 Darwin intensified lines of research that were to result in two important publications, Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex and Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Darwin circulated a questionnaire on human expression, asking his established contacts to pass it on to their acquaintances, with the result that he began to receive letters from an even more diverse and far-flung network of correspondents than had previously been the case. Convinced that human descent was strongly influenced by sexual selection, he also started to ask his correspondents about sexual differences in animals and birds. At the same time, he was working on the proof-sheets of another major work, Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, while negotiating almost weekly with French, German, and Russian translators. For information on the Charles Darwin Correspondence Project, see http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Darwin.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

List of letters

Introduction

Acknowledgments

List of provenances

Note on editorial policy

Darwin/Wedgwood genealogy

Abbreviations and symbols

THE CORRESPONDENCE

Appendixes: I. Translations, II. Chronology, III. Diplomas, IV. Darwin's queries about expression

Manuscript alterations and comments

Biographical register and index to correspondents

Bibliography

Notes on manuscript sources

Index.