From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 126
Summary:
Gives his opinion on a business transaction involving WED and the Southampton bank.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[25? Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (10 November 2009); PBA Galleries (dealers) (10 May 2012)
Summary:
American publishers will not wait for woodcuts, so asks Murray to have a copy of the reprint sent to Asa Gray. Will call soon to talk about Für Darwin and to hear about sale of latest edition of Origin
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 58–9
Summary:
He and Lizzie [Elizabeth Darwin] will come to Kew on Saturday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 123–4)
Summary:
There are so many doubtful points on the problems relating to sterility that they will never agree.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
27 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for information [about sex ratios] received from bird-catchers.
"Can you form any theory about all the many cases which you have given me and others which have been published, of when one pair is killed, another soon appearing?"
Facts about gay-coloured caterpillars very satisfactory.
Comments on Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
27 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A119–20
Summary:
Thanks RT for letter which saves him from a "terrible mistake": that no moths were more brilliantly coloured beneath than above. Suggests revised version for comment. [See Descent 1: 397.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 21)
Summary:
Defers visit [to Kew] because of ill health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[15 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 127
Summary:
Asks WED to observe blushing in the blind, and yawning.
Mentions elephants’ crying while trumpeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
30 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/17)
Summary:
Now understands importance of swim-bladder in selachians. Always imagined animal like Lepidosiren was parent form of vertebrates.
Has been nearly a month in London, collecting facts on sexual selection from breeders and at Zoological Gardens.
Astonished at hybrid of rabbit and hare. Is it certain that work was done with hare?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Doris Harris Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Clarifies his earlier query on Bell’s observations. Seeks confirmation of Bell’s statement that the conjunctiva of a child whose eyes are opened forcibly during a screaming fit become engorged with blood. CD has noted a relationship between contraction of the orbicular muscle and secretion of tears; can WB explain why they appear related?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
31 Mar 1868
Source of text:
LL 3: 88
Summary:
Glad to hear that WP defends species transmutation. German support is the chief reason to hope that their views will prevail.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand von Hochstetter
Date:
31 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
A. von Hochstetter (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for gift of work on the geology of the Novara expedition
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Alfred Smith
Date:
[11–31 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 81: 94–5
Summary:
Instructions for woodcuts showing sexual differences in beetles, for Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 [Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A23)
Summary:
Asks WED to observe a suppressed yawn.
Asks whether scratching a tickling point makes tears come to his eyes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 [March] [1868]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 115-117
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 201-202]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[21?] [March?] [1868?]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 119-120
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B160-163
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 204-205]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 March [1868]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 123-124
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 206-207]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project