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DCP-LETT-6041

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 61–4
Summary:

Relates a variety of facts about sexual selection in birds. [See Descent 2: 104–5.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
23 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (Grove Papers)
Summary:

Arranges to call on WRG.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
23 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Asks AG for details of variation in patterning of the banded snake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6044

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[24 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 5
Summary:

CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6045

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B61–2, B158–9
Summary:

Returns George Darwin’s criticisms of his notes on sterility and sends further notes in reply. Since there are degrees of sterility between varieties, "is it not probable that natural selection can accumulate these variations?" Varieties that are adapted to new conditions could then survive and form new species without being isolated.

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DCP-LETT-6046

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 65–8
Summary:

Experiments to test Wallace’s theory that brightly coloured caterpillars are rejected by birds. [See Descent 1: 417.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6047

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27] Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 3
Summary:

Discusses law versus engineering and business as a career.

Supposes ARW will have "squashed" GHD’s criticisms of his notes on sterility.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6048

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 154–5, DAR 84.1: 131–3, DAR 48: A77, DAR 84.2: 187v
Summary:

Detailed notes on secondary sexual differences in various species of birds and mammals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6049

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
25 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Has found EB’s MS most interesting and valuable. Fully half the facts were new to him; will probably use some.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6050

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
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DCP-LETT-6050F

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

DCP-LETT-6051

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A90–1; A117–18, DAR 85: B65
Summary:

Sexual preference in insects;

structures for seizing females;

coloration.

Doubts whether CD can make much of a case from insects in support of sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6052

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

DCP-LETT-6053

From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 91
Summary:

French translation of Variation has just appeared. Copies sent to Quatrefages de Bréau, C. V. Naudin, A. J. Gaudry, Camille Dareste, and Ernest Faivre.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6054

From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 80: B168
Summary:

Blushing in South American Indians.

Hairlessness of Aymaras and Quechuas. [See Descent 2: 322–3.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6055

From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 81: 76, DAR 85: B61–2, DAR 84.1: 134–5
Summary:

Coloration in moths.

Quotes Achille Guénée on relative proportion of sexes in Phalaenites.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6056

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26] Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: C5–9
Summary:

Proportions of sexes in birds as reported by bird-catchers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6057

From:
Ferdinand von Hochstetter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 223
Summary:

Thanks CD for advice received before his Novara voyage. Sends volumes [Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde … Geologischer Theil, ed. FCvH, 2 vols. in 3 (1864–6)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6058

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

DCP-LETT-6059

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.

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