From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A69–70
Summary:
On structure of Crustacea; size of claws [see Descent 1: 330–1].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
25 May [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks for note about enlarged left arm of Gelasimus.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 164
Summary:
CD’s book taking on famously. AG’s review in Nation [see 5921] and preface to American edition.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
25 May 1868
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.186–189)
Summary:
Asks JM to consider publishing a MS on John Wesley by CD’s niece, Frances Julia Wedgwood [John Wesley and the evangelical reaction of the eighteenth century (1870)].
Has received clean sheets for Italian translation [of Variation?].
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From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 142: 49a, 52
Summary:
Describes change of plumage in chickens in order to be sure he is clear about the age of chickens on which CD wants information. Encloses feathers to illustrate changes.
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From:
Edward Westey Janson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: 99–100
Summary:
Sends specimens selected by H. W. Bates.
Among the Lamellicornes the family Dynastidae have most instances of presence of stridulating organs; Frederick Smith says that in Hymenoptera female Mutilla has stridulating faculty in high degree.
[Itemised bill for Coleoptera specimens enclosed.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Did not know of complex change of plumage. From WBT’s letter, CD thinks six weeks to two months old is the best period. Sends details of breeds and other particulars.
Contributor:
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From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 127–8
Summary:
Refers to letter from John Wright offering to help CD on his queries about deerhounds and sexual preferences.
More details about a terrier bitch previously referred to [letter missing].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henty
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
Clifford D. Stromberg (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks WH for sending a table about sheep. Wishes to know if the sheep belonged to one or several breeds. Mr Harward, a breeder of shorthorns, has tried M. Thury’s plan, and it failed.
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 359
Summary:
Will be glad to see Miss Wedgwood’s MS on Wesley.
The clichés of Fritz Müller’s work [Für Darwin] have arrived.
Contributor:
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From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 204
Summary:
Questions CD’s view in Variation that Torfschwein formerly ranged from Europe to China.
Cites numerous German publications relating to CD’s theory.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 84
Summary:
He has been occupied with Royal Geographical Society anniversary meeting, but did go to Janson and selected various specimens for CD, some of which have remarkable stridulating organs.
The habits of Lethrus are found in Kirby and Spence’s Introduction [to entomology, 7th ed. (1856)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
29 May [1868]
Source of text:
19th Century Shop (dealers) (April 2016)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
30 May [1868]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection box 1, folder 2)
Summary:
Glad to have JJW’s opinion on nest-building. Wallace’s view [that skill is learned] is opposed to many facts.
Asks JJW about birds and their behaviour.
Wants information on the first plumage of different breeds of canaries.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 329
Summary:
Is reading CD’s instances of inherited peculiarities of eye [Variation 2: 8–10]. Gives cases of colour-blindness of males in his family.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Rolle
Date:
31 May 1868
Source of text:
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle)
Summary:
Thanks for references.
CD in error about Torfschwein.
Comments on German publications.
Asks about breed of fowl in which females have spurs.
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From:
John Robert Goodwin Barr
To:
George Cupples
Date:
[after 11 May 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 85: B27
Summary:
Sends replies on dogs – sexual differences and preferences.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
[before 18 May 1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD cannot remember whether correspondent believed the wing that Gallus bankiva opens and scrapes before the female, is ornamented. He fears it is not.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Winwood Reade
Date:
21 May [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.371)
Summary:
Thanks WWR for information in answer to his queries concerning expression.
Asks when horns first appear among a breed of sheep on the Guinea coast,
and for information about the gorilla and chimpanzee.
Asks about African ideas of beauty.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
12 May [1868]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (Gunther letters 2); DAR 82: B21–2
Summary:
Sends some questions on secondary sexual differences of fishes [missing], which he hopes AG will look over.
Invites AG to come to Down.
Encloses queries on sexual differences and nest-building habits of fish.
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Author
Addressee
- Agardh, Jacob1
- Airy, George Biddell1
- Anderson, Dr Thomas1
- Bate, C. S.1
- Bates, H. W.1
- Bentham, George2
- Child, G. W.2
- Colling, Elizabeth1
- Cupples, George2
- Daily News1
- Darwin, C. R.46
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, H. E.3
- Darwin, Horace2
- Dupre, August1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Gray, Asa1
- Günther, Albert2
- Henty, William1
- Herschel (son), John1
- Herschel, John15
- Hooker, J. D.3
- Hooker, Joseph1
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Kippist, Richard1
- Lewes, George Henry1
- Martius, Carl von1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von5
- Murray, John (b)1
- Murray, John, III1
- Newton, Alfred1
- Pennethorne, D. P.1
- Reade, W. W.1
- Rolle, Friedrich1
- Samuelson, James1
- Somerville, Mary2
- Staudinger, Otto2
- Tegetmeier, W. B.3
- Thwaites, G. H. K.1
- Tyndall, John2
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel5
- Weir, J. J.3
- FEWER