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DCP-LETT-5964

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3] Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 51–2 and DAR 82: A107–8
Summary:

Aggressive behaviour of a bullfinch toward new arrival in JJW’s aviary.

Sexual differences in goldfinches: size of beaks.

Sexual selection in Lepidoptera.

Thinks Dr Alex Wallace’s observations on Bombyx not conclusive in proving that no preference is shown by females.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5970F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 35)
Summary:

Asks CD to collect from the Jermyn Street Museum a box containing a skull and bones which belong to Mr Cumberbatch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5971

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 204–7
Summary:

Now quite understands Pangenesis. Satisfaction given by it, as CD says, may depend on one’s mental constitution. In all cases of descent JDH has always thought "all the properties of the parents are transmitted in the one cell and were diffused to every part of the future offspring".

Tyndall believes he feels atoms as firmly as St Paul believed he saw Christ.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5972

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 357
Summary:

JM offers a note for 400 guineas as author’s payment on sale of 1250 copies of 2d issue of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5973

From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A65–6
Summary:

Quotes information from Dr Power on colour of sexes of Crustacea in Mauritius [see Descent 1: 335].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel2601

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.498
Summary:

Has autographs showing the spots' motion. Will send them soon. Expresses regret at the death of W. R. Dawes. Refers to recent article on the optician George Merz.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6403

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.168
Summary:

Sending him photographs and mounts for him to sign and return. Can keep one for himself. Remembers the day she spent with him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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