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DCP-LETT-6210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Did not know of complex change of plumage. From WBT’s letter, CD thinks six weeks to two months old is the best period. Sends details of breeds and other particulars.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6211

From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 127–8
Summary:

Refers to letter from John Wright offering to help CD on his queries about deerhounds and sexual preferences.

More details about a terrier bitch previously referred to [letter missing].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6211F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henty
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
Clifford D. Stromberg (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks WH for sending a table about sheep. Wishes to know if the sheep belonged to one or several breeds. Mr Harward, a breeder of shorthorns, has tried M. Thury’s plan, and it failed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6212

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 359
Summary:

Will be glad to see Miss Wedgwood’s MS on Wesley.

The clichés of Fritz Müller’s work [Für Darwin] have arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6213

From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 204
Summary:

Questions CD’s view in Variation that Torfschwein formerly ranged from Europe to China.

Cites numerous German publications relating to CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6214

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 84
Summary:

He has been occupied with Royal Geographical Society anniversary meeting, but did go to Janson and selected various specimens for CD, some of which have remarkable stridulating organs.

The habits of Lethrus are found in Kirby and Spence’s Introduction [to entomology, 7th ed. (1856)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6214F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Cupples
Date:
29 May [1868]
Source of text:
19th Century Shop (dealers) (April 2016)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6215

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
30 May [1868]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection box 1, folder 2)
Summary:

Glad to have JJW’s opinion on nest-building. Wallace’s view [that skill is learned] is opposed to many facts.

Asks JJW about birds and their behaviour.

Wants information on the first plumage of different breeds of canaries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6216

From:
Hugh Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 329
Summary:

Is reading CD’s instances of inherited peculiarities of eye [Variation 2: 8–10]. Gives cases of colour-blindness of males in his family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6217

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Rolle
Date:
31 May 1868
Source of text:
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle)
Summary:

Thanks for references.

CD in error about Torfschwein.

Comments on German publications.

Asks about breed of fowl in which females have spurs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6527

From:
John Robert Goodwin Barr
To:
George Cupples
Date:
[after 11 May 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 85: B27
Summary:

Sends replies on dogs – sexual differences and preferences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6537

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
[before 18 May 1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD cannot remember whether correspondent believed the wing that Gallus bankiva opens and scrapes before the female, is ornamented. He fears it is not.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6754

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Winwood Reade
Date:
21 May [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.371)
Summary:

Thanks WWR for information in answer to his queries concerning expression.

Asks when horns first appear among a breed of sheep on the Guinea coast,

and for information about the gorilla and chimpanzee.

Asks about African ideas of beauty.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
12 May [1868]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (Gunther letters 2); DAR 82: B21–2
Summary:

Sends some questions on secondary sexual differences of fishes [missing], which he hopes AG will look over.

Invites AG to come to Down.

Encloses queries on sexual differences and nest-building habits of fish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7191

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
15 May [1868]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks for answer to questions.

Has analogous questions on reptiles that he will send to AG. The subject interests him, but CD must try not to fall into his common error of "being too speculative".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000884

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
August Dupre
Date:
18 May 1868
Source of text:
MM/14/154, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE365

From:
William Huggins
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
26 May 1868
Source of text:
MSH 6 / 348, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE374

From:
J Gwyn Jeffreys
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
1 May 1868?
Source of text:
MSJ 1 / 23, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE551

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
8 May 1868
Source of text:
179, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10596

From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 May 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.474
Summary:

Sees what a majority William Ewart's bill had yesterday. Comments on the events leading to this. So glad of the marriage of Amelia Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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