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
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On the proportion of sexes in crabs; coloration and structural differences.
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.
JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].
Colouring in horses.
Sends data from J. G. Jeffreys on the form of shells of the sexes of Mollusca. [See Descent 1: 324, 326.]
Will gladly supply any information he can. Sends Registrar General’s reports; will inquire about the animals.