From:
Robert Buist
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: B76–7
Summary:
On the pugnacity of male salmon during the spawning season.
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From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 169: 76
Summary:
His translation and printing of Variation will be completed in two months.
His work on a relief committee for Russia’s agricultural distress has forced him to travel 1000 miles in the last week.
Plans to visit CD in July.
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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.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
27 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/57)
Summary:
Thanks for corrections of errors [in Variation].
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From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 47–50
Summary:
On the play of colours in the peacock’s tail.
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From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A46–8b
Summary:
On the proportion of sexes in salmon, trout, and rats. [see Descent 1: 305, 308.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
28 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
CUL (Add MS 7656: D74)
Summary:
Thanks GGS for information on the peacock’s feathers. Asks whether the colour zones around the "eye" could result from varying the thickness of the film of colouring matter or whether it would require different kinds of colouring matter.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 55–7c
Summary:
Does not understand JDH on Pangenesis: on last page he appears to admit all that he regards as mere words on previous pages.
Wallace admires chapter on Pangenesis.
Pangenesis is a comfort. CD gains no idea from words like "potentiality" or "diffusing an influence"; atoms and cells give a distinct idea.
A. Newton told George that Berthold Seemann wrote the Athenæum review
and that Lewis [Lewes] did not write the Pall Mall Gazette review [see 5874].
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 86
Summary:
Crying in babies.
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From:
Alexander Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B41–5
Summary:
Proportion of sexes in insects, captured and bred. [see Descent 1: 313.]
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From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 17
Summary:
Thanks CD for second issue of Variation.
Is glad CD is satisfied with his translation of Piderit.
Will not start on Müller [Für Darwin] until CD has communicated with the author.
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From:
William Sedgwick
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 127
Summary:
Sends extracts giving details of the case of age-limited, hereditary blindness [see Variation 2: 78].
Recounts some cases of reversion that he has encountered.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200)
Summary:
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
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From:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A6–7
Summary:
Sends a preliminary reply to CD’s query [5890]. Ten males to one female among captured micro-Lepidoptera. Six females to four or five males in those he has bred. HTS is aware this is diametrically opposed to information from [Alexander] Wallace and Bates, but the true proportion of sexes can only be ascertained by breeding.
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