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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
11 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks about proportions of male to female insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
11 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Wants information on sex ratios in domestic animals. Can WBT help?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
11 Feb 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 21)
Summary:

Is working on sexual selection and is interested in any anomalous sex ratios in lower animals and any sex-related characters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
11 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1868): 160
Summary:

Requests information on published observations on the proportional number of males and females born to various domestic animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project