From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 58–9
Summary:
He and Lizzie [Elizabeth Darwin] will come to Kew on Saturday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
He and Lizzie [Elizabeth Darwin] will come to Kew on Saturday.
French translation of Variation has just appeared. Copies sent to Quatrefages de Bréau, C. V. Naudin, A. J. Gaudry, Camille Dareste, and Ernest Faivre.
Blushing in South American Indians.
Hairlessness of Aymaras and Quechuas. [See Descent 2: 322–3.]
Coloration in moths.
Quotes Achille Guénée on relative proportion of sexes in Phalaenites.
Proportions of sexes in birds as reported by bird-catchers.
Thanks CD for advice received before his Novara voyage. Sends volumes [Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde … Geologischer Theil, ed. FCvH, 2 vols. in 3 (1864–6)].