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DCP-LETT-6232

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
5 June 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 317; Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387)
Summary:

Sorry JJW cannot visit.

Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.

Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6343

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 319
Summary:

Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6422

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6746

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
13 May [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 321
Summary:

Comments on paper by JJW ["On insects and insectivorous birds", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1869): 21–6]. JJW’s verification of A. R. Wallace’s suggestion regarding inheritance is quite a discovery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6753

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
20 May [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 322
Summary:

Asks for information about male birds migrating before females.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6759

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
27 May [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 323
Summary:

Thanks for information about bird migration.

Comments on canary hybridisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6810

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 July [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 324
Summary:

"My health got so bad I could do nothing at Down".

Gives information about migration of male and female birds.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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