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
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
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:
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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
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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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
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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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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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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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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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
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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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 67
Summary:
Some questions on errata in second English issue of Variation.
Sends a paper by Robert Hartmann on domestic animals of the countries bordering the Nile ["Geographische Verbreitung der im nordöstlichen Afrika wild lebenden Säugethiere" Z. Ges. Erdkd. Berlin 3 (1868): 28–69, 232–70, 345–68, 404–20].
Has thought much about CD’s theory of Pangenesis. It "seems rather a little too complicated … as a molecular theory".
Contributor:
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From:
Jonathan Peel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B19–20
Summary:
Proportions of male and female lambs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 19
Summary:
Will start translating Für Darwin. Suggests it be called "A Lift for Darwin".
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 106: B59–60
Summary:
On sterility of natural species and natural selection. Closely allied forms from adjacent islands offer best chance of finding good species fertile inter se.
Problem of minute variations and sexual selection.
Contributor:
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From:
Paolo Mantegazza
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 36
Summary:
Sends papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 292
Summary:
Writes of his son’s affairs.
Is reading Variation and discusses a point relating to feeding habits of horses.
Contributor:
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From:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 244
Summary:
Reports her sister-in-law’s observations of her child, up to three months old, while crying and screaming.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 164
Summary:
Asks for CD’s "candid criticisms" of his paper [on Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
- Bate, C. S.1
- Bates, H. W.1
- Blyth, Edward1
- Bonham-Carter, E. M.1
- Buist, Robert1
- Bush, John1
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Canestrini, Giovanni1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Collingwood, Cuthbert1
- Dallas, W. S.2
- Darwin, G. H.1
- Darwin, W. E.3
- Dicey, E. M.1
- Doubleday, Henry2
- Forbes, David1
- Gray, J. E.1
- Grove, W. R.1
- Günther, Albert1
- Haeckel, Ernst1
- Henslow, George2
- Hewitt, Edward1
- Hochstetter, Ferdinand von1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Lewes, G. H.1
- Mantegazza, Paolo1
- Moulinié, J. J.1
- Murray, John (b)2
- Müller, Hermann1
- Naudin, C. V.1
- Peel, Jonathan2
- Price, John1
- Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages1
- Reinwald, C.-F.1
- Smith, Frederick (a)1
- Stainton, H. T.1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Tegetmeier, W. B.1
- Trimen, Roland3
- Wallace, A. R.5
- Wallace, Alexander1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel5
- Walsh, B. D.1
- Weir, H. W.1
- Weir, J. J.9
- Wrigley, Alfred2
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