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DCP-LETT-5748

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 73
Summary:

Reversion of tamed animals to wild behaviour.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5749

From:
Richard Barwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 52a
Summary:

Crying and the action of the orbicularis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5750

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 210
Summary:

Recommends J. Scott’s paper on crossing varieties of Verbascum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5755

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 31 Oct 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 81: 145
Summary:

Beginning of extract from William Dell Hartman’s "Journal of the doings of Cic[ada?] septemdecim" [unidentified] in Pennsylvania in 1851.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5756

From:
Edmund Langton; Charles Langton
To:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:
[after 9 Nov 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A95
Summary:

Some observations by EL on moths visiting flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5758

From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 172–3
Summary:

Notes on sexual differences within certain species of birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5760

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moritz Friedrich (Moritz) Wagner
Date:
[Apr–June 1868]
Source of text:
LL 3: 157; DAR 148: 198
Summary:

Thanks MW for his essay [Die Darwin’sche Theorie und das Migrationsgesetz der Organismen (1868)]. Is highly gratified that MW agrees with him to a considerable extent.

Almost wishes that he could believe in the importance of isolation to the same extent as MW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5761

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[after 16 Oct 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A96–7
Summary:

Has been working with G. R. Crotch on stridulation. The sexual theory seems very shaky.

Is sending preparations of beetles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5762

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 14 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A83–4
Summary:

Pairing habits of birds: polygamy among ducks and canaries.

Information on the proportion of sexes in fowls and other birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[9 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas (KU MSS P87: 2)
Summary:

Asks to borrow Philosophical Transactions, vol. 157, pt 2 (1868).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
8 [June? 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 3
Summary:

A cheque written out for FD has never been presented to CD’s bankers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5770

From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 288
Summary:

Thanks CD for his photograph.

Intends to start experimenting with mosses to determine which differences in structure are effected by altered conditions of life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5772

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
2 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 62)
Summary:

CD seeks information on the variation of ocelli within species of butterflies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5773

From:
Alfred Wrigley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 180
Summary:

Expresses his gratification on reading of Leonard Darwin’s high placing on the Sandhurst list.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5774

From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 207
Summary:

Reports making graft-hybrid potatoes.

Has found direct action of pollen in Mays [Zea] crosses and apple-trees.

F. Delpino has asked for CD’s address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5775

From:
Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 172: 14
Summary:

CD has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Biology Section of the Académie Impériale des Sciences, St Petersburg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5776

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 211
Summary:

Discusses mule canaries which show a tendency to revert to wild plumage colours.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5777

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
5 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018)
Summary:

Congratulates FH on graft-hybrid of potato. Importance of FH’s discovery to be discussed in Variation [2d ed., 1: 420].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5778

From:
Frederik Anthony von Hartsen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 113
Summary:

Sends portion of his book, Grundlegung von Aesthetik [1869]. Argues that CD’s theory can be reconciled with religion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5779

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 39–40
Summary:

Thanks for plant names.

H. C. Watson a renegade about natural selection. Discusses HCW’s views.

F. Müller’s letter enclosed.

Friedrich Hildebrand’s experiments are splendid for Pangenesis [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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