From:
John Hellins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 166: 138
Summary:
Notes sex ratios in Lepidoptera he is breeding.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
13 May [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 321
Summary:
Comments on paper by JJW ["On insects and insectivorous birds", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1869): 21–6]. JJW’s verification of A. R. Wallace’s suggestion regarding inheritance is quite a discovery.
Contributor:
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From:
John Beck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 104
Summary:
Sends his MS "The real presence" [on transubstantiation] for CD’s comments.
Contributor:
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From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 105
Summary:
He is managing to salvage a few Andalusian Drosophyllum plants from the voyage and will send some to CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
20 May [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 322
Summary:
Asks for information about male birds migrating before females.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
22 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 327
Summary:
Thanks for MS observations on expression. Discusses hair standing on end in terror and rage. Asks JC-B to observe contraction of platysma myoides. "Your description of the grinning and exposure of the canine teeth under furious rage is excellent. I presume that you would not object to my quoting it." Asks about contraction of "grief muscles". Comments on blushing. Offers to send book by G. B. A. Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Dean Caton
Date:
24 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 143: 255
Summary:
Discusses secondary hoofs in antelope and deer.
Mentions tuft of hair on turkey hen.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
27 May [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 323
Summary:
Thanks for information about bird migration.
Comments on canary hybridisation.
Contributor:
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From:
Adolf Reuter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 176: 124
Summary:
AR, gardener to the King of Prussia, has read Variation and wishes to send CD observations.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hellier Baily
Date:
[10 May 1869]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:
Referee report on paper by Richard Spruce on sacs in Melastoma [see 6690]. CD says RS’s suggestions that sacs are inherited is not supported and should be deleted.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Baily, W. H.1
- Beck, John1
- Bennett, A. W.1
- Bentham, George2
- Caton, J. D.2
- Crichton-Browne, James1
- Darwin, C. R.27
- Darwin, Emma2
- Darwin, Francis1
- Darwin, H. E.1
- Darwin, W. E.2
- Farrer, T. H.2
- Gray, Asa1
- Gray, J. L.1
- Hellins, John1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Maudsley, Henry1
- Maw, George1
- Reuter, Adolf1
- Rérolle, Louis1
- Sedgwick, Sara1
- Tait, W. C.1
- Weir, H. W.1
- Weir, J. J.5
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