RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1871.11. Abstract of Fiske, Lectures at Boston. CUL-DAR87.157. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. RN2
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. The volumes CUL-DAR87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).
Darwin did not cite Fiske in Descent 2d ed. See the exchange of letters between Darwin and Fiske in Spencer Clark, John ed. The life and letters of John Fiske. 2 vols. New York: Houghton Mifflin, vol. 1, pp. 481-82, 477, vol. 2, pp. 133-34. Text.
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Mr Fiske's Lectures at Boston, in that on Morals, (one of later Lectures) he considers view of long infancy of man, as bearing on Sociability, as important
Nov. 1871.
Descent of Man
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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