From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 38
Summary:
On improving the educational system.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 20–20v)
Summary:
Grateful for addresses of informants, especially that of Rajah James Brooke.
Dispatch of queries on expression. Answers will make interesting appendix to his "Essay on man" [Descent].
Protective adaptation of female butterflies believed probable.
Believes in sexual selection as applied to man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[7 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.190
Summary:
Not willing to be involved in translation of French work on astronomy [see JB's 1867-2].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 March [1867]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 20
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 140-141]
- Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 230-231]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Robert Chambers
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 March 1867
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 19-20
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project