From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 73
Summary:
Reversion of tamed animals to wild behaviour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 14 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A83–4
Summary:
Pairing habits of birds: polygamy among ducks and canaries.
Information on the proportion of sexes in fowls and other birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[before 18 May 1868]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 373)
Summary:
Questions on marmosets and the vocal organs of Hylobates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–7] May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 75–6, DAR 86: C3–4
Summary:
Proportion of sexes in ruffs [see Descent 1: 306].
Colour display in linnets, songbirds. Courtship display of Australian pigeon at zoo.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 191–2
Summary:
Answers CD’s objection [see 6121 and 6146] about sexual differences and protective colouring. Summarises his theory of colour in nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 May [1868]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 702)
Summary:
Sends Ernst Haeckel’s [Generelle] Morphologie [1866] and C. K. Sprengel’s book [Entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur (1793)].
A. Gaudry and L. Rütimeyer have declared in favour of CD’s views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Murie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 80: B124, B156–7
Summary:
Measurements of the Bornean ape (Macacus inornatus, Gray). [See Descent 1: 151.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A115–16
Summary:
BDW believes the coloration of species [of Anthocaris] provides a case of sexual selection.
The state of entomology in the U. S.; Darwinism now a common creed, especially among entomologists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 283
Summary:
Has read Variation;
is preparing a monograph on Scotch deerhounds. Offers CD information on size of male and female deerhounds.
Might not the effect of human mother’s imagination on "character of offspring" support Pangenesis?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 214
Summary:
Reports another case of syndactylism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gilbert William Child
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 143
Summary:
Requests CD testimonial for Sherardian Professorship of Botany.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 May [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 140–1)
Summary:
Criticism of ARW for too little esteem of the role of sexual selection as agent in giving colour.
Response to other topics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gilbert William Child
Date:
6 May [1868]
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (RCP/LEGAC/1001/64)
Summary:
Cannot judge GWC’s fitness for the Botanical Chair at Oxford. But CD appreciates his work, particularly that on spontaneous generation [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 13 (1863–4): 313; 14 (1865): 178].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
7 May [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks JJW for his great assistance.
Discusses sexual selection in birds.
Sends queries on secondary sexual characteristics of birds.
Has often marvelled at the different growth of the flowering and creeping branches of ivy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gilbert William Child
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 144
Summary:
Thanks CD for testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 May [1868]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (94)
Summary:
AG’s review of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6] very good.
CD’s fondness for Pangenesis; although an "infant cherished by few", CD expects it to have a long life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project