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DCP-LETT-6515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 108—9
Summary:

JDH’s letter invaluable for an answer to Nägeli’s essay [Entstehung und Begriff der Naturhistorischen Art (1865)].

Has gone through his index to Gardeners’ Chronicle but finds little of use to JDH for his Flora.

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DCP-LETT-6526

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bryceson Brothers & Co.
Date:
[after June 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 68
Summary:

Reports the whereabouts of S. J. O’H. Horsman, who has failed to pay for an organ he ordered.

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DCP-LETT-6532

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
[after July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.2: 183, 187, 187v
Summary:

Questions from CD related to bird plumage and sexual differences, with answers by EB.

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DCP-LETT-6546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
6 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 77
Summary:

Asks about expression of emotion among Negroes and American Indians in Nicaragua. Queries enclosed.

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DCP-LETT-6787A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Bates
Date:
19 June [1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 120
Summary:

"Though next Spring will be rather late, I do not think it will be too late, & if in your power to send me some living specimens of Trox sabulosus, I shd. be greatly indebted to you.––-"

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DCP-LETT-7052

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.

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DCP-LETT-6033

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[21 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 119–20); DAR 106: B160–3
Summary:

On problem of sterility, CD cannot persuade himself that it has been gained by natural selection.

On sexual selection and minute variations, he tends to agree with ARW. Sends George Darwin’s notes on ARW’s argument.

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DCP-LETT-6162

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gilbert William Child
Date:
6 May [1868]
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (RCP/LEGAC/1001/64)
Summary:

Cannot judge GWC’s fitness for the Botanical Chair at Oxford. But CD appreciates his work, particularly that on spontaneous generation [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 13 (1863–4): 313; 14 (1865): 178].

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DCP-LETT-6210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Did not know of complex change of plumage. From WBT’s letter, CD thinks six weeks to two months old is the best period. Sends details of breeds and other particulars.

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DCP-LETT-6232

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 317; Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Summary:

Sorry JJW cannot visit.

Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.

Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]

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DCP-LETT-6308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
7 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 42; Argyll Papers, Inveraray Castle (NRAS 1209/985)
Summary:

Thinks GHL’s articles are quite excellent; hopes they will be republished.

Discusses adaptation. Doubts whether similar conditions without selection can produce similar organs independent of blood relationship: "resemblances due to descent and adaptation can commonly be distinguished".

Discusses luminous insects, electrical organs of fish, thorns and spines.

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DCP-LETT-6343

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 319
Summary:

Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6422

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
17 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 320
Summary:

Enjoyed JJW’s visit.

Interested in changes in plumage of pheasants.

Still at work on sexual selection in birds.

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DCP-LETT-6457

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sweetland Dallas
Date:
11 Nov [1868]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (LDGSL 286/8); DAR 96: 51
Summary:

A letter strongly recommending him for the post of Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society.

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DCP-LETT-7186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
12 May [1868]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (Gunther letters 2); DAR 82: B21–2
Summary:

Sends some questions on secondary sexual differences of fishes [missing], which he hopes AG will look over.

Invites AG to come to Down.

Encloses queries on sexual differences and nest-building habits of fish.

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