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DCP-LETT-6020

From:
Jonathan Peel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B19–20
Summary:

Proportions of male and female lambs.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6021

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 19
Summary:

Will start translating Für Darwin. Suggests it be called "A Lift for Darwin".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6022

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
18 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Requests information on the standard of beauty of savages and on whether the female has any influence in selecting a male.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[19 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.349)
Summary:

The second volume of Lyell’s [Principles, 10th ed.] gives a "fair history of the progress of opinion on Species".

Pleased by allusion to Pangenesis: "an untried hypothesis is always dangerous ground".

Looks forward to chapter on domestication and on man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6024

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 106: B59–60
Summary:

On sterility of natural species and natural selection. Closely allied forms from adjacent islands offer best chance of finding good species fertile inter se.

Problem of minute variations and sexual selection.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6025

From:
Paolo Mantegazza
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 36
Summary:

Sends papers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6026

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 292
Summary:

Writes of his son’s affairs.

Is reading Variation and discusses a point relating to feeding habits of horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Doubleday
Date:
20 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD asks about HD’s observation of sexual call of Coleoptera.

Also comments on statements by collectors that they breed more females than males from caterpillars. CD had thought this might be accounted for by the collection of largest and finest caterpillars, but Alexander Wallace says the collectors take large and small equally. Does HD agree with Wallace?

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6028

From:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 244
Summary:

Reports her sister-in-law’s observations of her child, up to three months old, while crying and screaming.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6029

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 164
Summary:

Asks for CD’s "candid criticisms" of his paper [on Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6030

From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A92–3
Summary:

On attraction of males by females in moths. H. T. Stainton mentions a case.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6031

From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 233
Summary:

Asks CD to breakfast in London on Tuesday [24 Mar].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6032

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
21 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends his niece’s [Lucy Wedgwood] observations on worms, vouches for her accuracy, and suggests the piece be inserted in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see "Worms", Gard. Chron. (1868): 324].

Adds his thanks for a "very kind review" of his book [Variation, Gard. Chron. (1868): 124].

Contributor:
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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-6034

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
21 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, f. 7)
Summary:

Corrects error in spelling of name [in Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6035

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
[21 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 67)
Summary:

Arranges for RT to call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6036

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
21 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 31–32)
Summary:

Corrections for German translation of Variation.

Discusses Pangenesis. CD not surprised at JVC’s unfavourable opinion. Huxley’s joke that it is more difficult to believe than Genesis. Lyell’s and Sir H. Holland’s opinions. For CD, it provides a bond for connecting many phenomena.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6037

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
21 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 125
Summary:

Suggests possible arbitrators to act in a business transaction involving WED.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6038

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
22 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Glad to hear about pigeons. Did not know some birds could win affections of females more than others, except among peacocks.

Comments on polygamy in birds.

Discusses sex ratios among birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6040

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 47
Summary:

Has received English edition of Variation. First volume of German edition came three months ago. Comments on book.

Will send copy of recent lectures on human evolution [Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts (1868)]. Gegenbaur much interested in the subject.

Considers Selachius the ancestral form of the fish and hence of all higher vertebrates. Believes their swim-bladder became lung of amphibians.

Mentions cases of hybrid crosses between rabbits and hares producing fertile offspring.

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