RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Colour of Hair & Marriage. CUL-DAR85.A25-A28. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.

A25

red, fair, brown, dark, black

Single women

Married women

[figures not transcribed]

blonde brown dark

off single women

A25v

Colour of Hair & Marriage In 2 of Anth. Rev.—

A26

(Man calculations)

A27

of married women

are blonde

A28

are brown

are dark

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