Darwin Online Manuscript Catalogue
| Identifier: | CUL-DAR85.A70 |
| Date: | [1868--1871] |
| Name: | Darwin Charles Robert |
| Attributed title: | of addendum [to Draft of Descent,?]: (29) The same distinguished traveller informs me that that with these people the "tablier" or praecinctorium of the women which to us is revolting |
| Description: | [This draft note paraphrases the 26 March 1867 letter to Darwin from Andrew Smith about secondary sexual characters of Hottentot women. See Correspondence vol. 15. This was published in Descent 2: 345 in Latin for the sake of delicacy: "Idem illustrissimus viator dixit mihi præcinctorium vel tabula fæminæ, quod nobis teterrimum est, quondam permagno æstimari ab hominibus in hac gente. Nunc res mutata est, et censet talem conformationem minime optandam est." |
| Document type: | Draft |