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DCP-LETT-6677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Comments on Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6678

From:
Karl Johann (Karl) von Seidlitz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 132
Summary:

Mentions his publication [Die Bildungsgesetze der Vogeleier (1869)].

Comments on importance of heredity for evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6679

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 291
Summary:

Will look for sex ratio statistics.

Will weigh pups.

Deerhound breeding;

wolves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6680

From:
Harrison William Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: C10, DAR 84.1: 118
Summary:

Proportion of sexes in pigeons, pigs, and pheasants.

Sexual preferences of females.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6681

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 112–15
Summary:

Comments on Fritz Müller’s book [Facts and arguments for Darwin].

Responds to CD’s corrections of his work [Malay Archipelago].

Plumage of birds of paradise.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6682

From:
Martin Wilckens
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 96: 67v
Summary:

Sends two of his publications ["Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Fortschritte der Thierzucht", Jahrb. Landwirtsch. (1869) and "Die Aufgaben der landwirtschaftlicher Biotechnik", Landwirtsch. Wochenbl. (1869)].

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DCP-LETT-6683

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Martin Wilckens
Date:
[after 25 Mar 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 67r
Summary:

Thanks MW for two publications [see 6682].

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DCP-LETT-6684

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Hopes ARW has not "murdered too completely your own and my child" [natural selection] in his Quarterly Review article ["Sir Charles Lyell on geological climates and the Origin", 126 (1869): 359–94] on Lyell’s Principles [10th ed.].

CD is attributing more significance to useless variability in new [5th] edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6685

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 12–13; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 188: 141–2)
Summary:

Pleased to come on 17th.

Is arranging the Aucuba experiment.

Sends some letters for CD’s perusal.

Asks what CD thinks of Huxley’s address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxviii–liii].

Would be glad to have Drosophyllum plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6686

From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 175: 5
Summary:

Comments on their differences regarding evolution. Acknowledges that CD alone has produced an evolutionary theory that is scientific and all-embracing. Appreciates grandeur of CD’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6687

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 147: 254–6
Summary:

Congratulates WP on the success of his lectures.

Discusses the phrase "struggle for existence".

Sends a list of his papers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6688

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 121–2
Summary:

Interested in Barkly’s letter about Mauritius. Doubts non-volcanic origin. Urges collection of all forms of terrestrial life to determine whether they are of a former continent or "waifs and strays". He leans to latter view, as snakes and reptiles are different.

Huxley’s address wonderfully "brilliant", but it is a mistake to separate evolutionists from uniformitarians.

Bentham has come out "splendidly" on descent of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6689

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Friedrich Claus
Date:
31 Mar 1869
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 208–209)
Summary:

Williams and Norgate inform CD that they dispatched the small parcel to Leipzig on 23 February. CD fears it may not be worth the trouble to CC.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6692

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
5 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.364)
Summary:

Discusses wear and tear due to glaciation and significance of this evidence for dating the glacial period. Mentions views of James Croll and Archibald Geikie on the issue.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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