From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Arrangements to dine at JDH’s club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sedgwick
Date:
4 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.347)
Summary:
Thanks WS for information about moss roses and the Le Compte family.
Mentions WS’s recent papers on inheritance [Brit. & Foreign Med.-Chirurg. Rev. (1867)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski
Date:
4 Mar 1868
Source of text:
Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 1. Register 2-1868. Folder 17. P65, 65 r)
Summary:
Acknowledges his election as a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jonathan Peel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 96–7
Summary:
Sends copy of a paper on his flock of sheep, which confirms much of what CD says in Variation,
together with a note he made of an instance of cattle "determining the existence" of a tree [cf. Origin, ch. 3].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 f. 36)
Summary:
Payment of 400 guineas [Variation royalties] delights CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
4 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:
Sends sheets with alterations to be made [in Russian translation of Variation]. VOK should consider adding to the title-page that CD is a Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences (St Petersburg).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B66–7
Summary:
Proportions of sexes of the silkworm are about equal, but knows of no statistics.
Cannot share his view of origin of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
