From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[24 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 5
Summary:
CD relays the advice of Sir W. R. Grove on the dismal prospects of a law career.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B61–2, B158–9
Summary:
Returns George Darwin’s criticisms of his notes on sterility and sends further notes in reply. Since there are degrees of sterility between varieties, "is it not probable that natural selection can accumulate these variations?" Varieties that are adapted to new conditions could then survive and form new species without being isolated.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 65–8
Summary:
Experiments to test Wallace’s theory that brightly coloured caterpillars are rejected by birds. [See Descent 1: 417.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27] Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 3
Summary:
Discusses law versus engineering and business as a career.
Supposes ARW will have "squashed" GHD’s criticisms of his notes on sterility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 126
Summary:
Gives his opinion on a business transaction involving WED and the Southampton bank.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 58–9
Summary:
He and Lizzie [Elizabeth Darwin] will come to Kew on Saturday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 91
Summary:
French translation of Variation has just appeared. Copies sent to Quatrefages de Bréau, C. V. Naudin, A. J. Gaudry, Camille Dareste, and Ernest Faivre.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 80: B168
Summary:
Blushing in South American Indians.
Hairlessness of Aymaras and Quechuas. [See Descent 2: 322–3.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26] Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: C5–9
Summary:
Proportions of sexes in birds as reported by bird-catchers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ferdinand von Hochstetter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 223
Summary:
Thanks CD for advice received before his Novara voyage. Sends volumes [Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde … Geologischer Theil, ed. FCvH, 2 vols. in 3 (1864–6)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
27 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A119–20
Summary:
Thanks RT for letter which saves him from a "terrible mistake": that no moths were more brilliantly coloured beneath than above. Suggests revised version for comment. [See Descent 1: 397.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A120v
Summary:
Approves CD’s revision on coloration of moths.
Impressed with apparent adverse tendencies: one toward sexual selection, the other toward protection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 165
Summary:
Thanks for criticism of his paper [on Variation].
If external conditions induce variability, what is the internal cause?
Does not agree with Duke of Argyll that "Origin of Species" is an incorrect term.
Sees playfulness of animals as a mark of the Deity’s creative playfulness.
Will visit soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Hewitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 83–5
Summary:
On various subjects related to sexual selection: preferences, proportion of sexes. [See Descent 2: 117–18, 122.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Harrison William Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 86–7
Summary:
Recognition of colour by animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[15 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 127
Summary:
Asks WED to observe blushing in the blind, and yawning.
Mentions elephants’ crying while trumpeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Victor Naudin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 172: 9
Summary:
Thanks for Variation.
Complains of a severe facial neuralgia.
He is planning to build an experimental laboratory in the south.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 82
Summary:
Blushing in boys blind from birth. Has got information from R. H. Blair, the principal of a college for the blind.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Bush
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 161-2
Summary:
His impression is that male rats outnumber females. Males are pugnacious and polygamous. Gives details of the inheritance of colour in a colony he kept.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Cuthbert Collingwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 214
Summary:
Sends CD his book [Naturalist on the China Sea (1868)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project