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DCP-LETT-5912

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 104–5)
Summary:

Reports work on sexual selection. Problems with the relative numbers of the two sexes and polygamy. Asks ARW’s help with several questions on polygamous birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5940

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 108–11)
Summary:

Pleased by ARW’s response to Pangenesis.

On negative reception by his friends.

Further argument concerning sterility and natural selection.

Polygamy and sexual selection.

Protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 20–20v)
Summary:

Grateful for addresses of informants, especially that of Rajah James Brooke.

Dispatch of queries on expression. Answers will make interesting appendix to his "Essay on man" [Descent].

Protective adaptation of female butterflies believed probable.

Believes in sexual selection as applied to man.

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-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-6095

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 125–9)
Summary:

More on the "terrible problem" of natural selection and sterility. CD’s reasons for disagreeing with ARW. CD analyses and answers ARW in detail in defence of his conclusion that sterility cannot be increased through natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6109

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Warns ARW of dubious character of list of European alpine genera and species in volcanoes of Hawaii. Problems of geographical distribution in oceanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6121

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 133–5)
Summary:

Admires ARW’s "Theory of birds’ nests" [J. Travel & Nat. Hist. 1 (1868): 73].

Discusses their respective views on birds’ nests, sexual selection, and protection.

Asks why, if brilliant colours of female butterflies are result of protective mimicry, do not males become equally brilliant? CD believes variation in females alone accounts for it, rather than protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6146

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 136–9)
Summary:

More on CD’s objections to ARW’s views on protection and natural selection.

Sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6161

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 May [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 140–1)
Summary:

Criticism of ARW for too little esteem of the role of sexual selection as agent in giving colour.

Response to other topics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 143–6)
Summary:

The problem of dimorphic plants and their fertility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6368

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 149–50)
Summary:

CD’s oscillating views relating to protection and sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 153–6)
Summary:

On their differences concerning sexual selection and protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6412

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 162–3)
Summary:

Sexual selection, protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6567

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 165–6)
Summary:

Response to letter about dedication of Malay Archipelago and several scientific papers.

Changes in 5th ed. of Origin.

Now feels individual differences of paramount importance. Fleeming Jenkin has convinced him about "single variations".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6591

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 168–9)
Summary:

CD expressed himself badly. F. Jenkin’s argument was against single variations ever being perpetuated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6642

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

Reception of ARW’s book, Malay Archipelago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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-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-7020

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 194–5)
Summary:

Further comments on arrangements for German translation of their joint paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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