From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
31 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 330
Summary:
Thanks for new case.
Not very well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 317; Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Summary:
Sorry JJW cannot visit.
Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.
Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 319
Summary:
Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
17 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 320
Summary:
Enjoyed JJW’s visit.
Interested in changes in plumage of pheasants.
Still at work on sexual selection in birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
22 May 1873
Source of text:
Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007)
Summary:
Has no doubt he will find JJW’s address interesting.
Thinks same spot for nesting might prove attractive to birds, though they had had no intercommunication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 85
Summary:
Yellow flowers occurring on a purple Cytisus grafted onto a yellow stock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 86
Summary:
Yellow and purple flowers occur on plant grafted with Cytisus purpureus, but only on separate racemes. Only yellow blooms seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 87
Summary:
Sends CD some of the Cytisus, which has produced yellow flowers on a purple graft.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 467
Summary:
Discusses mule’s resemblance to parents.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 73
Summary:
Reversion of tamed animals to wild behaviour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 27 Feb] 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 77–80
Summary:
Trusts his paper ["Apterous Lepidoptera" (1867), printed for the West Kent Natural History, Microscopical, and Photographic Society] showed that he is thoroughly a disciple of CD.
Cites evidence that birds undoubtedly distinguish colours. [see Descent 2: 110.]
Contributor:
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From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 5] Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A109–12
Summary:
Does not think females give preference to any males. Coloration, pugnacity; cases of use of colour in struggle for existence. [see Descent 1: 395.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A21–4
Summary:
Various facts about birds: pairing, finding new mates, protective coloration, polygamy, sexual differences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 53–6
Summary:
Courtship of goldfinches. Male display. [See Descent 2: 95.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 57–60
Summary:
Sexual selection of pigeons, ducks;
polygamous birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 61–4
Summary:
Relates a variety of facts about sexual selection in birds. [See Descent 2: 104–5.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 65–8
Summary:
Experiments to test Wallace’s theory that brightly coloured caterpillars are rejected by birds. [See Descent 1: 417.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26] Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: C5–9
Summary:
Proportions of sexes in birds as reported by bird-catchers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 74
Summary:
George Rolleston’s son was born with a scar on his knee exactly where GR cut himself with a knife years before his marriage. Gives several other examples of inherited mutilation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 76
Summary:
Instinct in birds; nest-building.
Inheritance of acquired characters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project