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DCP-LETT-5468

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[28 Mar – 5 Apr 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 34–5
Summary:

Discusses the orchid specimens received from MTM. Remarks on the self-sterility of Cypripedium and other orchids.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5469

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [Mar 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 18
Summary:

Anxious for news about baby.

Will remember to save all foreign plants for JDH when he has finished experimenting with them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5470

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
29 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 1 (EH 88205899)
Summary:

Thanks WO for information on inheritance of deficient phalanges [Variation 2:73] and for interesting case of the occurrence of anomalous fingers and teeth in twins[Variation 2: 253].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5471

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
29 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 428
Summary:

Has learned that Fritz Müller is HM’s brother.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5475

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
30 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Believes beauty of male bird important for attracting mate in wild. Will be interested to hear how a dyed male pigeon is received by the hens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5476

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
30 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Would like tabulation of horned beetles if not too troublesome, but would easily settle for general remarks.

On the subject of other species mocking Heliconidae, asks whether full-coloured ones were mocked. Expresses full belief in HWB’s theory.

Encloses a copy of A. R. Wallace’s letter to the Field requesting observations on which caterpillars birds devour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 20–20v)
Summary:

Grateful for addresses of informants, especially that of Rajah James Brooke.

Dispatch of queries on expression. Answers will make interesting appendix to his "Essay on man" [Descent].

Protective adaptation of female butterflies believed probable.

Believes in sexual selection as applied to man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1845

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 March [1867]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 20
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 140-141]
  • Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 230-231]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1877

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
March [1867]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 80-83
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 181-182]
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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