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From:
Henry Reeks
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 192-193
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 100–4
Summary:
Comments on and corrections for chapter 13, "Mammals", of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 108–9
Summary:
Retention of horns by female deer with fawn [see Descent, 2d ed., p. 503].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 80
Summary:
Observations on habits of caribou and deer in Newfoundland.
Suggests nightingale egg coloration evolved from white to olive for protection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 176: 81
Summary:
Argues that coloration of eggs is a protective adaptation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 172
Summary:
A geologist friend leaving for Nevada offers to investigate any questions CD may have for this region.
Nesting plumage of common chaffinch resembles adult winter plumage of female brambling.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 88: 105
Summary:
Praise for and detailed comments on Expression.
Two cases of coloration in animals – one from sexual selection, the other helping to procure prey [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 542–3].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 82
Summary:
Insists that suckling babies pound and scratch mothers’ breasts. Perhaps CD’s evidence to the contrary comes from ladies, who only expose small portion of bosom, as opposed to working-class women.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 83
Summary:
Sends a sample of seeds of Onobrychis sativa and Poterium muricatum, plants that show mimicry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Stephen (Henry) Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 176: 84
Summary:
Suggests that mimicry of sainfoin by burnet plants is an adaptation against farmers’ weeding.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project