From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 118
Summary:
Replies to CD’s query on expression of emotions.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gilbert William Child
Date:
[6 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 56
Summary:
Encloses a testimonial for GWC [see 6162]. Feels himself poorly qualified to give a testimonial for a botanist and apologises for his brevity.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Staudinger
Date:
6 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 491
Summary:
Asks about the ratio of male to female Lepidoptera.
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From:
Gilbert William Child
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 144
Summary:
Thanks CD for testimonial.
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From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 168: 58
Summary:
Sends his notes on Florent Prévost’s reference to the habits of the cuckoo.
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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 242a, DAR 82: B23
Summary:
Sends proofs of his fish paper.
Will observe modification of colour in fish.
Is studying the development of the axolotl.
Encloses notes in reply to CD’s queries on fishes.
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From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 33
Summary:
Asks CD’s permission to translate Variation into Italian [translation not published until 1876].
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From:
Otto Staudinger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A103-6
Summary:
Has often thought CD would find vast material for his ideas in study of entomology and Lepidoptera. His price-list of specimens proves only that collectors of Lepidoptera catch more males than females, not that there are more. He accounts for this by the less active habits of the females. [See Descent 1: 312.]
Contributor:
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From:
John Harward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 119
Summary:
On false claims that female cattle can be produced at will.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 163: 14/1
Summary:
Asks function of several twisted parts (stem, petals, germen) in hardy orchids. His reading of Orchids makes him suspect that the parts are connected with fertilisation.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 163
Summary:
Has passed on copy of Variation to American Academy [of Arts and Sciences]. The U. S. reprint is not very nicely printed.
Contributor:
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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 208
Summary:
Sends graft-hybrid notice.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 41
Summary:
Is confirmed about the bending of the fly orchid pollinia. [See "Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 141.]
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From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 33
Summary:
Going to the Gold Coast. Will collect plants for Kew.
Offers his services. Particularly interested in making inquiries for CD about the human race.
Contributor:
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From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 187
Summary:
Regrets he cannot get to Down.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 210–13
Summary:
Trip with Huxley was perfect.
At Torquay later he had a lecture on "Kent’s hole" from Joseph Pengelly.
George Bentham acknowledges himself unreservedly a convert to Darwinism. Many will still cling to a "rag of protection, but will eventually haul it down".
A. Murray’s later parts better than first [? Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Wallace’s paper shows great ability.
Disgusted with [Duke of Argyll’s] Reign of law.
His depression and exhaustion.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 68
Summary:
Encloses grass from locust dung sent from Natal. Asks for name of grass.
Contributor:
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From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 282
Summary:
Wilson Armistead’s death cut short his work on galls, but Müller is continuing it.
In China only uni-coloured animals are sold for meat, the rest are killed in the litter.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Staudinger
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 147: 492
Summary:
Thanks for information on sex ratios of Lepidoptera.
Agrees that entomologists have best means of proving derivation of species.
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From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 185
Summary:
Answers CD’s queries on sexual characters and differences among the Urodela.
Is interested in the relationship of pectoral and pelvic limbs in man and apes and has looked at reptiles and amphibians to find traces of the earlier conditions of the limbs.
Asks whether CD knows any instances of deformities or pathological conditions occurring simultaneously in both sets of limbs.
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