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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Congratulates CD on success at Cambridge [of George Darwin].
Would like CD to study the anomalous Cardamine pratensis.
Thanks CD for a recent letter.
Reports on his health, which has been bad for 12 months.
Sends extracts of works on domestication.
Discusses the pairing of various birds; comments on the pugnacity of partridges, pheasants, male guinea-fowl, and peacocks.
Gives proportions of sexes in pheasants.
Writes on various observations and discoveries on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Observations on lateral spots on coats of two specimens of deer. PS on habits of wild and domestic turkeys.
Note identifying insects and remarking on stridulation.
Lists stridulating organs of various Coleoptera.
Wants seeds of Passiflora gracilis.
