From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
21 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 125
Summary:
Suggests possible arbitrators to act in a business transaction involving WED.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
22 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
Glad to hear about pigeons. Did not know some birds could win affections of females more than others, except among peacocks.
Comments on polygamy in birds.
Discusses sex ratios among birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 47
Summary:
Has received English edition of Variation. First volume of German edition came three months ago. Comments on book.
Will send copy of recent lectures on human evolution [Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts (1868)]. Gegenbaur much interested in the subject.
Considers Selachius the ancestral form of the fish and hence of all higher vertebrates. Believes their swim-bladder became lung of amphibians.
Mentions cases of hybrid crosses between rabbits and hares producing fertile offspring.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
23 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (Grove Papers)
Summary:
Arranges to call on WRG.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
23 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:
Asks AG for details of variation in patterning of the banded snake.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[24 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 5
Summary:
CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B61–2, B158–9
Summary:
Returns George Darwin’s criticisms of his notes on sterility and sends further notes in reply. Since there are degrees of sterility between varieties, "is it not probable that natural selection can accumulate these variations?" Varieties that are adapted to new conditions could then survive and form new species without being isolated.
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:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27] Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 3
Summary:
Discusses law versus engineering and business as a career.
Supposes ARW will have "squashed" GHD’s criticisms of his notes on sterility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 154–5, DAR 84.1: 131–3, DAR 48: A77, DAR 84.2: 187v
Summary:
Detailed notes on secondary sexual differences in various species of birds and mammals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
25 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:
Has found EB’s MS most interesting and valuable. Fully half the facts were new to him; will probably use some.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 126
Summary:
Gives his opinion on a business transaction involving WED and the Southampton bank.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[25? Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (10 November 2009); PBA Galleries (dealers) (10 May 2012)
Summary:
American publishers will not wait for woodcuts, so asks Murray to have a copy of the reprint sent to Asa Gray. Will call soon to talk about Für Darwin and to hear about sale of latest edition of Origin
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A90–1; A117–18, DAR 85: B65
Summary:
Sexual preference in insects;
structures for seizing females;
coloration.
Doubts whether CD can make much of a case from insects in support of sexual selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 58–9
Summary:
He and Lizzie [Elizabeth Darwin] will come to Kew on Saturday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 91
Summary:
French translation of Variation has just appeared. Copies sent to Quatrefages de Bréau, C. V. Naudin, A. J. Gaudry, Camille Dareste, and Ernest Faivre.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 80: B168
Summary:
Blushing in South American Indians.
Hairlessness of Aymaras and Quechuas. [See Descent 2: 322–3.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 81: 76, DAR 85: B61–2, DAR 84.1: 134–5
Summary:
Coloration in moths.
Quotes Achille Guénée on relative proportion of sexes in Phalaenites.
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
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- Airy, George Biddell1
- Anderson, Dr Thomas1
- Bates, H. W.1
- Bentham, George1
- Blyth, Edward1
- Bowman, William1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Colling, Elizabeth1
- Darwin, C. R.71
- Darwin, Emma2
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Darwin, H. E.1
- Darwin, W. E.4
- Doubleday, Henry2
- FitzGibbon, Edmund1
- Forbes, David1
- Gray, Asa1
- Gray, J. E.1
- Grove, W. R.1
- Gurney, John Henry1
- Günther, Albert1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Herschel, John19
- Hewitt, Edward1
- Hochstetter, Ferdinand von1
- Hooker, J. D.3
- Hooker, Joseph3
- Horkery1
- Hügel, Carl von1
- Kippist, Richard1
- Kovalevsky, V. O.1
- Krauss, Ferdinand1
- Lyell, Charles3
- Martius, Carl von1
- Masters, M. T.1
- Messrs Baptist & Sons1
- Moulinié, J. J.1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von1
- Murray, John (b)3
- Murray, John, III2
- Müller, Fritz1
- Newton, Alfred2
- Ogle, William1
- Peel, Jonathan1
- Petermann, August1
- Preyer, William1
- Rouse, R. C. M.1
- Sedgwick, William1
- Sharpey, William1
- Simpson, A. J.1
- Smith, E. A.1
- Spruce, Richard1
- Stainton, H. T.1
- Stokes, G. G.1
- Tegetmeier, W. B.2
- Trimen, Roland3
- Turberville, H.1
- Vesselofski, C. S.1
- Wallace, A. R.3
- Wallace, Alfred Russel3
- Wedgwood, Emma1
- Weir, J. J.4
- Wrigley, Alfred3
- [Jackson, Frederic J.]1
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