From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A61–4
Summary:
On the proportion of sexes in crabs; coloration and structural differences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 152
Summary:
Mentions review [of Variation] in the Athenæum [15 Feb 1868, pp. 243–4].
Comments on adaptive utility of the right hand, an organ still undergoing specialisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 217
Summary:
JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].
Colouring in horses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A55–6
Summary:
Sends data from J. G. Jeffreys on the form of shells of the sexes of Mollusca. [See Descent 1: 324, 326.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Farr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 29
Summary:
Will gladly supply any information he can. Sends Registrar General’s reports; will inquire about the animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
