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DCP-LETT-5911

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
22 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Asks LJ which British birds are polygamous. His query relates to the possession by the male of secondary sexual characters.

CD is also interested in the numerical proportion of the sexes in birds.

Asks about the use of the horns in male lamellicorn or coprophagous beetles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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-5913

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
22 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms suppl. 66, ff. 5–6)
Summary:

Sends corrections [for French edition of Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5914

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
22 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph file, D)
Summary:

Thanks HWB for bringing "the question of sexes" before the Entomological Society. Feels he will come to some conclusion by comparison of numerous observations.

It appears Pangenesis "will expire unblessed and uncursed by the world".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5915

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
22 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 33–34)
Summary:

Sends sheets of second issue [of Variation] with errata and changes to be made.

Refers to a favourable review,

and a contemptuous one in Athenæum written, he thinks, by Richard Owen [see 5931].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5916

From:
Edward Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 124
Summary:

CD’s queries on expression.

Sends photo of a native Australian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5917

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 15
Summary:

Has sent his translations [of parts of Theodor Piderit, System der Mimik und Physiognomik (1867)].

Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin [1864] would sell if well translated. WSD would be glad to undertake it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1886

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 February [1868]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 104-105
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 194-195]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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