From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 76
Summary:
Instinct in birds; nest-building.
Inheritance of acquired characters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 250
Summary:
Sends CD a copy of a book he has had printed mainly for the interest of his children and grandchildren [later published as Recollections of past life (1872)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A42–3
Summary:
In addition to the drawing of a caterpillar which CD intends to use,
HWB sends information on differences of colour and pattern between the sexes of species of Papilio.
Argynnis diana and A. sagana have females that are brightly coloured, but these may be cases of protective mimicry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Hellins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B71–75, B79–82
Summary:
Gives the evidence on which he relied for his view, which CD thinks is erroneous, of proportion of sexes in Lepidoptera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Henry Edward Armstrong
Date:
20 April 1868
Source of text:
MM/10/92, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society