From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Union Bank
Date:
[before 3 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 5
Summary:
Wishes to invest some money in railway shares; asks for the advice of the bank’s brokers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
3 July [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/8)
Summary:
Thinks GM’s Pelargonium is a case of true correlated characters. Feels secondary sexual characters are only accidental correlations; does not see the same necessity for close simultaneous development of certain characters as GM does.
Will forward a copy of his Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
3 July [1862]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 68–9)
Summary:
Can AdeQ verify the statement that the moths of the several races of the common silkworm are very similar?
When the female moth comes out of the cocoon, are her wings less developed than those of a male moth at the same stage?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project