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DCP-LETT-5997

From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B47–8
Summary:

Proportion of sexes in Lepidoptera.

Sexual preference.

Role of coloration [see Descent 1: 311–12].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5998

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 18
Summary:

Expresses his pleasure at the opportunity of meeting CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5999

From:
Alfred Wrigley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 181
Summary:

Wants to know why Horace has been removed from school without any notification.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6000

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: C11–12
Summary:

On proportion of sexes in birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6001

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 293
Summary:

Has heard from W. Engelmann of Leipzig; he is willing to let CD have the woodcuts to Fritz Müller’s work [Für Darwin (1864)] for 22 thalers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6002

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
[20 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 35)
Summary:

Any notes on idea of human beauty by natives who have little association with Europeans would interest CD.

Also influence of females on males’ choice.

Sends copy of Queries about expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6003

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
CUL (Add MS 7656: D75)
Summary:

Sends GGS examples of feathers from an albino peacock and repeats his query about the zones of colour [see 5950].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6004

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Wrigley
Date:
11 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 42–3
Summary:

Regrets and apologises for a misunderstanding regarding Horace’s leaving Clapham School. Is sure he wrote an earlier letter which AW evidently did not receive.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6005

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:
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DCP-LETT-6006

From:
Alfred Wrigley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 182
Summary:

Had hoped that the intention of removing Horace from school had been abandoned and regrets that it has not.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6007

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A40–1
Summary:

Results of his examination of divergence in sexual coloration of tropical American butterflies. [See Descent 1: 389 on Junonia and Papilio.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6008

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Wrigley
Date:
[after 12 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 182v
Summary:

Assures AW he has not hurt Horace’s feelings. CD has always been doubtful about a private tutor for Horace. Fears a letter [giving notice of removal] was lost in the post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6009

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
13 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2952: 8–10)
Summary:

Thanks for facts about birds displaying plumage during courtship; "for Butterflies I must trust to analogy altogether in regard to sexual selection".

Invites JJW to visit in summer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6010

From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A25
Summary:

On the proportions of the sexes in silk moths, fish, and eels.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6011

From:
Alexander Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A26–7
Summary:

On proportion of sexes [of moths?] raised from larvae: AW does not select largest exclusively.

Account of lambing in 1864 after unusual drought.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6012

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: 23–4
Summary:

Coloration of butterflies; brilliantly coloured females.

Commends CD on his paper on specific differences in Primula [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54; reprinted and revised in Forms of flowers] as a test-case proving origin of real species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6013

From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 13
Summary:

Thanks for Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6014

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
16 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 22)
Summary:

CD arranging for a translation of FM’s Für Darwin by W. S. Dallas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6015

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
[16 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 66)
Summary:

Asks whether RT will call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6016

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:
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