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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
6 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
14 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 235
Summary:

Discusses transport of fish to Lake Constance by flooding.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
7 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Sends his photograph.

Asks for any information of well-marked sexual differences in snakes, batrachians, or lizards. The rattlesnakes at the Zoological Garden differ considerably in colour.

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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 82: B72–4
Summary:

Sexual differences in reptiles, especially Indian [see A. Günther, The reptiles of British India (1864)].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
21 Dec [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.339)
Summary:

Thanks AG for information.

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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late Dec 1867 or early Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: B75
Summary:

The Cyprinodontidae family of fishes exhibits sexual differences as remarkable as any in reptiles or birds [Descent 2: 7, 9–10].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
23 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Asks AG for details of variation in patterning of the banded snake.

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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 23 Mar 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 82.2: 25
Summary:

Note on sexual differences in Monacanthus.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
12 May [1868]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (Gunther letters 2); DAR 82: B21–2
Summary:

Sends some questions on secondary sexual differences of fishes [missing], which he hopes AG will look over.

Invites AG to come to Down.

Encloses queries on sexual differences and nest-building habits of fish.

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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 242a, DAR 82: B23
Summary:

Sends proofs of his fish paper.

Will observe modification of colour in fish.

Is studying the development of the axolotl.

Encloses notes in reply to CD’s queries on fishes.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
15 May [1868]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks for answer to questions.

Has analogous questions on reptiles that he will send to AG. The subject interests him, but CD must try not to fall into his common error of "being too speculative".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
21 Sept 1869
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library; DAR 82: B14–15
Summary:

Sends a list of queries for AG.

Asks whether AG can supply specimens for illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes Mr Ford will do the drawings.

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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 243
Summary:

Mr Ford is attending to CD’s drawings [for Descent].

Death of AG’s wife.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
25 Sept 1869
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Is "astonished & deeply grieved" at loss [of AG’s wife].

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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 27 Sept 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 82: B16–20; DAR 84.2: 168
Summary:

Replies to CD’s queries on sexual habits and differences in fish and lizards.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
27 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Thanks AG for full answers to queries.

Delighted Mr Ford will undertake drawings [for Descent]; comments on some illustrations he would like.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
13 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Delighted with proofs of illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes AG is pleased with them, as they illustrate facts given on his authority.

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From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 Jan 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 244
Summary:

Is glad CD likes the proofs; looks forward to the appearance of his work.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
16 Jan [1870]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Invites AG to Down for a weekend with A. Newton, R. Swinhoe, and Hooker.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
23 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Summary:

Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for Mr Ford’s woodcuts [for Descent]. Thanks AG for his kindness.

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