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
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
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:
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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)].
Contributor:
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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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 March [1869]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 170-171
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 235]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 March 1869
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B77-78
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 172
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 235-236]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 March 1869
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 173-177
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 237-239]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 March [1869]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 178-180
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 240-241]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 March 1869
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 84.1: 112-115
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
20 March [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Mss.B.D25.367
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 366
Summary:
Sends statement [missing] of cost and proceeds of publishing Facts and arguments for Darwin at 6s. Asks whether CD agrees to this price.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 367
Summary:
Book [Facts and arguments for Darwin] is being bound; it is probably too late to alter lettering.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Huxley, T. H.5
- Wallace, A. R.5
- Wallace, Alfred Russel5
- Hooker, J. D.4
- Cupples, George3
- Lyell, Charles3
- Müller, Fritz3
- Preyer, William3
- Tait, W. C.3
- Claus, C. F.2
- Cooke, R. F.2
- Eyton, T. C.2
- John Murray2
- Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages2
- Stebbing, T. R. R.2
- Wilckens, Martin2
- Bate, C. S.1
- Blyth, Edward1
- Caton, J. D.1
- Dub, Julius1
- Faivre, Ernest1
- Glenie, S. O.1
- Landor, Henry1
- Lushington, Vernon1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Recht, Georg1
- Rérolle, Louis1
- Seidlitz, Karl von1
- Weir, H. W.1