From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A57–60
Summary:
On the colours of sexes in Crustacea; the structure of male crabs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
11 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks about proportions of male to female insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 80: B169a–c
Summary:
Corrects some facts and gives further information on some points for the 2d ed. of Variation.
Specific distinctions among animals.
Cercopithecus of Africa contrasted with the Cebus of South America.
Notes on domestic fowls and their ancestors.
Slow growth of wild animals compared with domestic varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 12
Summary:
WSD is delighted to hear that first edition [of Variation] has sold so well.
Has received a cheque from J. Murray for 30 guineas, double what was agreed upon. Sends a postal order for the five guineas CD sent him [see 5788].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
11 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1868): 160
Summary:
Requests information on published observations on the proportional number of males and females born to various domestic animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 249
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Variation. Comments on it, especially on Pangenesis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
11 Feb 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 21)
Summary:
Is working on sexual selection and is interested in any anomalous sex ratios in lower animals and any sex-related characters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
11 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Wants information on sex ratios in domestic animals. Can WBT help?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project