From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 28–9
Summary:
Male dotterels take care of young and are less brilliantly coloured than females.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2–30 Mar 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 208
Summary:
Discussion of origin of domestic sheep races. Some comments on the yak and the wild ancestors of the llama and alpaca.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 85: A98
Summary:
Pleased that CD approves his idea about caterpillars.
Thinks CD is right about selection in butterflies, but still believes protective adaptation has kept down colours of females.
Cannot yet see action of natural selection in forming the races of man.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 March [1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 85: A98
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 105: B57–8
Summary:
He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 142: 102
Summary:
Reports observations on fertility of orchids he has self-pollinated and crossed with pollen of other species.
Contributor:
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From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A90–1, DAR 111: B47
Summary:
Observations on Ophrys plants and Thymus vulgaris. Encloses sketch of different forms of T. vulgaris [see Forms of flowers, p. 302].
Contributor:
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From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 38
Summary:
On improving the educational system.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 362
Summary:
Has been hunting for an otter-hound for CD.
Hopes CD will visit his museum at the Horticultural [Society].
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 82: A36–9, A46–7
Summary:
Sexual ornamentation of insects: coloration of Epicalia genus [of tropical S. American butterflies];
horned genera of lamellicorn beetles [see Descent 1: 370, 388].
Wallace brought CD’s question about gay-coloured caterpillars before the Entomological Society. Members now seeking explanations.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B24, B45; DAR 82: A22
Summary:
ARW responds to CD’s list of queries about expression. Suggests acquiring informants through publishing the queries in newspapers. His doubts about their importance.
Has submitted caterpillar question to Entomological Society.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 March [1867]
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B24
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 78-79
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 180-181]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Benjamin Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 157/1, 158
Summary:
Requests CD’s subscription to his On systematic botany and zoology [1870]. "Progressive development" is a leading principle of his work.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 145–6
Summary:
Has been persuaded to accept BAAS Presidency.
On Charles Naudin’s discovery of seeds of Chamaerops fertilised by the date-palm.
Contributor:
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From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 71
Summary:
Thanks CD for permission to translate Variation into Russian. The translation will be guided by his brother Alexander, a follower of Darwin,
whose articles on the affinity of ascidians and vertebrates he forwards.
Contributor:
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From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 204
Summary:
Sends several plants with abortive anthers or bad pollen.
Contributor:
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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 166: 206
Summary:
Intends to begin a journal reviewing the botanical literature.
Sends his book [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 347
Summary:
Agrees that new title of Variation is an improvement. Now thinks 1500 copies a safe number to print.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 147–50
Summary:
Sends Naudin’s letter.
Pangenesis.
Benjamin Clarke is mad.
Interested in CD’s Ipomoea experiment.
Scott’s experiments are all in CD’s favour.
Clarifies a sentence in "Insular floras".
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 [Mar 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B56
Summary:
Is sending a copy of [John] Shaw’s book, which Lady Bell says is based on Charles Bell’s papers [possibly C. Bell, A treatise on diseases of the urethra, 3d ed. with notes by John Shaw (1822)].
Contributor:
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