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DCP-LETT-6019

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 67
Summary:

Some questions on errata in second English issue of Variation.

Sends a paper by Robert Hartmann on domestic animals of the countries bordering the Nile ["Geographische Verbreitung der im nordöstlichen Afrika wild lebenden Säugethiere" Z. Ges. Erdkd. Berlin 3 (1868): 28–69, 232–70, 345–68, 404–20].

Has thought much about CD’s theory of Pangenesis. It "seems rather a little too complicated … as a molecular theory".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6021

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 19
Summary:

Will start translating Für Darwin. Suggests it be called "A Lift for Darwin".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1891

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 [March] [1868]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 115-117
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 201-202]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6020

From:
Jonathan Peel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B19–20
Summary:

Proportions of male and female lambs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4376

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H. Turberville
Date:
[17 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.378b (C: 24.214)
Summary:

Explains HT's problem with the defective telescope glass. Advises caution about entering optical glass manufacturing. Urges HT to take back his will from JH's possession and entrust it to the care of a legal advisor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6017

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

For experiment on effect of male beauty, pigeons should be coloured on the breast.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 [Mar 1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 43434: 115–17)
Summary:

On his Primula paper for the Linnean Society ["On the specific difference between Primula veris, Brit. Fl. (var. officialis, Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. var. acaulis, Linn.), and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the hybrid nature of the common oxlip; with supplementary remarks on naturally produced hybrids of the genus Verbascum", [officinalis!?] J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].

Peacocks and sexual selection.

ARW’s sterility argument has driven CD’s sons half-mad.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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