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DCP-LETT-5983

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jonathan Peel
Date:
6 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8059)
Summary:

Obliged for JP’s account of sheep. Such articles would make naturalists think more of natural selection.

E. A. Darwin’s health bad.

Asks about sex ratio in sheep births.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5986

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
[6 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.348)
Summary:

Discusses beaks and relative numbers of the sexes of goldfinches.

Comments on sexual selection among butterflies.

Mentions Kerguelen moth collected by Hooker.

Comments on JJW’s observations on coloured birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
6 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 2 (EH: 88205900)
Summary:

Wishes he had known of the views of Hippocrates, which are almost identical to his Pangenesis hypothesis. CD advances it as provisional, but secretly expects some such view will have to be admitted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5989

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
6 Mar 1868
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 37–38)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of bill for £420.

Will try to attend Athenaeum meeting to help elect Clowes’s son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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