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DCP-LETT-6017

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
17 [Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

For experiment on effect of male beauty, pigeons should be coloured on the breast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 [Mar 1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 43434: 115–17)
Summary:

On his Primula paper for the Linnean Society ["On the specific difference between Primula veris, Brit. Fl. (var. officialis, Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. var. acaulis, Linn.), and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the hybrid nature of the common oxlip; with supplementary remarks on naturally produced hybrids of the genus Verbascum", [officinalis!?] J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].

Peacocks and sexual selection.

ARW’s sterility argument has driven CD’s sons half-mad.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6019

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 67
Summary:

Some questions on errata in second English issue of Variation.

Sends a paper by Robert Hartmann on domestic animals of the countries bordering the Nile ["Geographische Verbreitung der im nordöstlichen Afrika wild lebenden Säugethiere" Z. Ges. Erdkd. Berlin 3 (1868): 28–69, 232–70, 345–68, 404–20].

Has thought much about CD’s theory of Pangenesis. It "seems rather a little too complicated … as a molecular theory".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 [March] [1868]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 115-117
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 201-202]
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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