Spotlight on a correspondent: William Winwood Reade

On May, 19, 1868, an African explorer and unsuccessful novelist, William Winwoode Reade (1838–1875) offered to help Darwin, and started a correspondence and, arguably, a collaboration, that would last until Reade’s death. After a first 1861 tour of West Africa, in which he paid particular attention to arguments then current about the character of gorillas [...]

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