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DCP-LETT-5826

From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A61–4
Summary:

On the proportion of sexes in crabs; coloration and structural differences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5883

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
17 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 12A)
Summary:

Has looked through BDW’s papers and finds heaps of facts on sexual differences. Asks questions on sexual differences in particular species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5884

From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 152
Summary:

Mentions review [of Variation] in the Athenæum [15 Feb 1868, pp. 243–4].

Comments on adaptive utility of the right hand, an organ still undergoing specialisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5885

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
17 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 234)
Summary:

Thanks for Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].

CD will call on JEG to hear his views on specific differences of pigs.

Does not know who has "cut me up so severely" in the Athenæum but suspects "your great man in the Museum" [Richard Owen].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5886

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 217
Summary:

JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].

Colouring in horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5887

From:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A55–6
Summary:

Sends data from J. G. Jeffreys on the form of shells of the sexes of Mollusca. [See Descent 1: 324, 326.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5888

From:
William Farr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 29
Summary:

Will gladly supply any information he can. Sends Registrar General’s reports; will inquire about the animals.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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