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DCP-LETT-6069

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 82
Summary:

Blushing in boys blind from birth. Has got information from R. H. Blair, the principal of a college for the blind.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6072

From:
John Bush
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 161-2
Summary:

His impression is that male rats outnumber females. Males are pugnacious and polygamous. Gives details of the inheritance of colour in a colony he kept.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6073

From:
Cuthbert Collingwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 214
Summary:

Sends CD his book [Naturalist on the China Sea (1868)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6074

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 98–101, DAR 84.1: 69–70
Summary:

Sexual behaviour of chaffinches.

Numbers of female linnets in September.

His experiments on brightly coloured larvae [as food], testing A. R. Wallace’s theory.

His observations of a rookery make him wonder whether it may not be more difficult than we think for birds to pair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6531

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 23 Mar 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 82.2: 25
Summary:

Note on sexual differences in Monacanthus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6534

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 10 Mar 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 82: 7
Summary:

On the relative size of sexes in aculeate Hymenoptera. [See Descent 1: 347–8.]

Contributor:
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WCP1889

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 March 1868
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B49-50
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B53-56
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 112-113
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 199-200]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1890

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 March [1868]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B51-52
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 114
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 201]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1892

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 March 1868
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B59-60
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 118
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 203-204]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1894

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 March [1868]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B61-62
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B158-159
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 121-122
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 205-206]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4084

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 March [1868]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 82: A23-24
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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