From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Michael Jenkins
Date:
[after 1 Oct 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 50
Summary:
Feels there is little he could say as a testimonial for HMJ.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 October [1868]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 162-163
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 231]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 162–3)
Summary:
Sexual selection, protection.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 5 (EH: 88205943)
Summary:
Asks JT to distribute some circulars about the work of Gustavus Hinrichs of Iowa, whom CD wishes to help.
Admires JT’s Norwich address [to Mathematics and Physics Section, BAAS meeting, Rep. BAAS 38: 1–6] and his Fortnightly Review paper on scientific discovery [7 (1867): 645–60].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
9 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 146: 431
Summary:
Pleased HM says good words for Pangenesis.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
13 Oct 1868
Source of text:
Mrs Romney Sedgwick (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks AS for congratulations on George Darwin’s Trinity fellowship.
Reminiscence of his geological tour of North Wales with AS and the encouraging messages received during the Beagle voyage.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
17 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 320
Summary:
Enjoyed JJW’s visit.
Interested in changes in plumage of pheasants.
Still at work on sexual selection in birds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 6 (EH: 88205944)
Summary:
Invites JT to come to Down with the Asa Grays and Hookers.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
21 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 149); DAR 266
Summary:
Reminds WDF to write about the "great magpie marriage". Sexual selection an "everlasting subject".
News of his children.
Asks for information on instances of sexual preference in animals and data on numbers of males and females born in various domesticated species.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
22 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 341
Summary:
Fears copy of AW’s publication [Über die Berechtigung der Darwin’schen Theorie (1868)] lost in mail. Asks for another.
Glad AW approves of his work
and objects to Nägeli’s law of perfection.
Thinks Moritz Wagner overrates necessity for emigration and isolation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl von Scherzer
Date:
25 Oct 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.356)
Summary:
Thanks KvS for information about expression.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
26 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.335)
Summary:
Encloses Queries about expression.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
29 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/9)
Summary:
Suggests THF write a paper on violets. Asa Gray, once a sceptic, now declares he is convinced whole structure of a flower is adapted for a cross with another individual.
Urges THF not to give up Pangenesis lightly. "It has thrown light on my mind in regard [to] a great series of complex phenomena."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sven Nilsson
Date:
31 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
Lund University Library Special Collections (Sven Nilsson papers)
Summary:
Thanks SN for the reference about the reindeer, received via Hooker.
CD wishes to ascertain whether there is any relation between the period of development of a character and its transmission to one sex alone.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
31 Oct 1868
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 16)
Summary:
Thanks BDW for extracts about "drumming" [of male Cicada to attract females].
Asa Gray and Hooker doubt that 13–year and 17–year Cicada forms should be considered distinct species. CD is inclined to agree with them.
Suggests observations be made of ratio of females to males in the rarer form.
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