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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Requests 50 copies of his paper ["Offspring of illegitimate unions of di- and trimorphic plants", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 393–437].
Encloses some queries.
Would also like information about proportion of male to female humming-birds.
Reference to OS’s paper in Ibis, vol. 2.
Reports the whereabouts of S. J. O’H. Horsman, who has failed to pay for an organ he ordered.
Testimonial for James Archer, who leaves CD’s service after six months.
Resigns curacy of Down.
Progress of CD’s order for certain books.
Thinks SJOH is right not to return to Down. Asks him to forward certain documents. Hopes final arrangements will soon be made for a resident clergyman in Down.
Is glad FM approves of a translation of Für Darwin.
Hopes FM will think well of Pangenesis.
Sexual differences in insect auditory and stridulating organs.
Read FM’s paper on Balanus with great interest ["On Balanus armatus", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 1 (1868): 393–412].
As JS’s powers of observation seem to exist in all lines, CD begs further information from him and [H. N. B.] Erskine about the natives’ expressions of indignation, affirmation, and negation. The movements of the eyebrows and forehead of a girl in violent grief are of particular interest.
Do sub-breeds of pigeons exist in India as in Europe, but not in England? If so, what is the colour of the plumage in males and females at different stages of development?
Plumage of canaries; changes in plumage with successive moults.
Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.
Sends specimens of Coleoptera.
Quotes from W. F. Erichson [Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands 3: 927] on stridulating organs in Trox.
Suggests variation in seed-covering membranes as a cause of variation in plants.
Asks about camouflage of birds in the Sahara desert.
"I have seen the action on Ophrys exactly as you describe and am thoroughly ashamed of my inaccuracy."
Horrified to find he has forgotten to announce birth of daughter.
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.]
Congratulations on birth of daughter. CD used to dread birth-time.
Sexual selection has turned out to be a large subject.
Will answer CD’s queries when he returns home in a month.
Discusses possible English translation of A. E. Brehm’s [Illustrirtes] Thierleben [1864–9].
Asks for permission to use 15 of Brehm’s illustrations [in Descent].