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DCP-LETT-6028

From:
Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 244
Summary:

Reports her sister-in-law’s observations of her child, up to three months old, while crying and screaming.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-6027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Doubleday
Date:
20 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD asks about HD’s observation of sexual call of Coleoptera.

Also comments on statements by collectors that they breed more females than males from caterpillars. CD had thought this might be accounted for by the collection of largest and finest caterpillars, but Alexander Wallace says the collectors take large and small equally. Does HD agree with Wallace?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6002

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
[20 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 35)
Summary:

Any notes on idea of human beauty by natives who have little association with Europeans would interest CD.

Also influence of females on males’ choice.

Sends copy of Queries about expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6031

From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 233
Summary:

Asks CD to breakfast in London on Tuesday [24 Mar].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6029

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 164
Summary:

Asks for CD’s "candid criticisms" of his paper [on Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6030

From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A92–3
Summary:

On attraction of males by females in moths. H. T. Stainton mentions a case.

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