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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 104–5)
Summary:

Reports work on sexual selection. Problems with the relative numbers of the two sexes and polygamy. Asks ARW’s help with several questions on polygamous birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 108–11)
Summary:

Pleased by ARW’s response to Pangenesis.

On negative reception by his friends.

Further argument concerning sterility and natural selection.

Polygamy and sexual selection.

Protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project