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DCP-LETT-5878

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 79
Summary:

Agrees to help determine the sex ratios in domestic animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5879

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

Is much obliged that WBT will undertake tabulation of sex ratios in racehorses, greyhounds, and cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5880

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 216
Summary:

Slashing article on Variation in Athenæum.

Discussion of relationships of various pigs.

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DCP-LETT-5881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
15 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Hutchinson 1914, 1: 48
Summary:

Returns Anthropological Review.

Asks to borrow Desmarest on Crustacea [Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés (1825)].

Has been reading JL’s address to the Entomological Society [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d. ser. 5 (1865–7): cxiii–cxxxi].

Would like to hear JL’s conclusion for or against Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5882

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16–20 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 80
Summary:

Encloses information on sex ratios in thoroughbred horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5883

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
17 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 12A)
Summary:

Has looked through BDW’s papers and finds heaps of facts on sexual differences. Asks questions on sexual differences in particular species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5884

From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 152
Summary:

Mentions review [of Variation] in the Athenæum [15 Feb 1868, pp. 243–4].

Comments on adaptive utility of the right hand, an organ still undergoing specialisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5885

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
17 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 234)
Summary:

Thanks for Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].

CD will call on JEG to hear his views on specific differences of pigs.

Does not know who has "cut me up so severely" in the Athenæum but suspects "your great man in the Museum" [Richard Owen].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5886

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 217
Summary:

JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].

Colouring in horses.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5887

From:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A55–6
Summary:

Sends data from J. G. Jeffreys on the form of shells of the sexes of Mollusca. [See Descent 1: 324, 326.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5888

From:
William Farr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 29
Summary:

Will gladly supply any information he can. Sends Registrar General’s reports; will inquire about the animals.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5889

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
18 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD thanks BJS for photographs of Jemmy [Button]’s son

and for the curious case about stallions, which leads him to ask whether BJS has observed that horses when fighting try especially to bite each other’s necks.

Does he know anything about male seals fighting?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5890

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
18 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 20)
Summary:

Asks for information on coloration and proportions of sexes in butterflies and moths for his work on sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5891

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
18 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
CUL (Add 7656: D73)
Summary:

Wants to know how the colour of the eye of the peacock’s tail is produced, whether it depends upon colouring matter in the feathers or reflection, and whether any varying structural change will account for the series of colours surrounding it.

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DCP-LETT-5892

From:
John Blackwall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A2–3
Summary:

Proportion of sexes in spiders; coloration.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5893

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A4–5
Summary:

Has put question of proportion of sexes in insects to the Entomological Society. Quotes H. T. Stainton and F. Smith. Cites some cases mentioned by other members.

Is reading Variation; does not quite understand Pangenesis.

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DCP-LETT-5894

From:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 76: B173–4
Summary:

Discusses the flowers of, and cross- and self-fertilisation in, certain aquatic plants. Gives cases of dichogamy and perfect self-fertility.

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DCP-LETT-5895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
19 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD in utter confusion about differences between J. O. Westwood and HWB on division of certain insects. Asks if HWB will homologise certain families for him, telling him which terms would be most generally understood.

Asks also about differences on sound-producing organs of Achetidae Gryllidae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5896

From:
Edward Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 123
Summary:

Encloses letter (not found) from Australian friend responding to CD’s queries on expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5897

From:
Charles Owen Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A76–7
Summary:

Coloration of blind beetles.

Sizes of sexes in Taphroderes.

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