From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: C11–12
Summary:
On proportion of sexes in birds.
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From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 293
Summary:
Has heard from W. Engelmann of Leipzig; he is willing to let CD have the woodcuts to Fritz Müller’s work [Für Darwin (1864)] for 22 thalers.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
[20 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 35)
Summary:
Any notes on idea of human beauty by natives who have little association with Europeans would interest CD.
Also influence of females on males’ choice.
Sends copy of Queries about expression.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
CUL (Add MS 7656: D75)
Summary:
Sends GGS examples of feathers from an albino peacock and repeats his query about the zones of colour [see 5950].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Wrigley
Date:
11 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 42–3
Summary:
Regrets and apologises for a misunderstanding regarding Horace’s leaving Clapham School. Is sure he wrote an earlier letter which AW evidently did not receive.
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From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 53–6
Summary:
Courtship of goldfinches. Male display. [See Descent 2: 95.]
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From:
Alfred Wrigley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 182
Summary:
Had hoped that the intention of removing Horace from school had been abandoned and regrets that it has not.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A40–1
Summary:
Results of his examination of divergence in sexual coloration of tropical American butterflies. [See Descent 1: 389 on Junonia and Papilio.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Wrigley
Date:
[after 12 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 182v
Summary:
Assures AW he has not hurt Horace’s feelings. CD has always been doubtful about a private tutor for Horace. Fears a letter [giving notice of removal] was lost in the post.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
13 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2952: 8–10)
Summary:
Thanks for facts about birds displaying plumage during courtship; "for Butterflies I must trust to analogy altogether in regard to sexual selection".
Invites JJW to visit in summer.
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From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A25
Summary:
On the proportions of the sexes in silk moths, fish, and eels.
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From:
Alexander Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A26–7
Summary:
On proportion of sexes [of moths?] raised from larvae: AW does not select largest exclusively.
Account of lambing in 1864 after unusual drought.
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: 23–4
Summary:
Coloration of butterflies; brilliantly coloured females.
Commends CD on his paper on specific differences in Primula [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54; reprinted and revised in Forms of flowers] as a test-case proving origin of real species.
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 13
Summary:
Thanks for Variation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
16 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 22)
Summary:
CD arranging for a translation of FM’s Für Darwin by W. S. Dallas.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
[16 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 66)
Summary:
Asks whether RT will call.
Contributor:
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From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 57–60
Summary:
Sexual selection of pigeons, ducks;
polygamous birds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
17 [Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
For experiment on effect of male beauty, pigeons should be coloured on the breast.
Contributor:
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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.
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 67
Summary:
Some questions on errata in second English issue of Variation.
Sends a paper by Robert Hartmann on domestic animals of the countries bordering the Nile ["Geographische Verbreitung der im nordöstlichen Afrika wild lebenden Säugethiere" Z. Ges. Erdkd. Berlin 3 (1868): 28–69, 232–70, 345–68, 404–20].
Has thought much about CD’s theory of Pangenesis. It "seems rather a little too complicated … as a molecular theory".
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