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WCP1877

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
March [1867]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 80-83
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 181-182]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5426

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 28–9
Summary:

Male dotterels take care of young and are less brilliantly coloured than females.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2548

From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 March 1867
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 17-18
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5337

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2–30 Mar 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 208
Summary:

Discussion of origin of domestic sheep races. Some comments on the yak and the wild ancestors of the llama and alpaca.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6367

From:
C. H. D. Buys Ballot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.132
Summary:

Is honored that JH should have noticed one of his articles. Quotes further articles, which may be of interest. Regarding JH's views on air and his own theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE541

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
2 Mar 1867
Source of text:
162, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-5968

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 85: A98
Summary:

Pleased that CD approves his idea about caterpillars.

Thinks CD is right about selection in butterflies, but still believes protective adaptation has kept down colours of females.

Cannot yet see action of natural selection in forming the races of man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4081

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 March [1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 85: A98
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5428

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 105: B57–8
Summary:

He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5429

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 142: 102
Summary:

Reports observations on fertility of orchids he has self-pollinated and crossed with pollen of other species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5430

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
4 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 89
Summary:

Thanks for information about the dotterel.

CD had ascertained by dissection that the female of the carrion-hawk of the Falkland Islands is very much brighter coloured than the male. Has inquired about its nidification. Mentions other instances of female birds that are brighter and more beautiful than the males and suggests causes for this anomaly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2080

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 March 1867
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 26-27
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2079

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 March 1867
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 24-25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5432

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Farrar
Date:
5 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 144: 41
Summary:

Much obliged for lecture [On some defects in public school education (1867)]. Would leave classics to those with zeal and taste for appreciation. Learned nothing at school except by reading and experimenting in chemistry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3386

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.164
Summary:

Sends JH proceedings of Mathematical Society of London and asks JH to join.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8356

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[5 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.158
Summary:

No mention of Emmanuel Liais's L'espace céleste in English journals. Contact London publishers to find translator for it. Alexander Herschel is now professor of natural philosophy at Andersonian Institution in Glasgow. Hopes JB's elegant method of measuring gravity by torsion will not die before being put into practice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5431

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks whether WBT can carry out poultry mating experiments for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP6882

From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 March 1867
Source of text:
Bancroft Library, University of California: BANC MSS 92/515z
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1394

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
5 Mar [1867?]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/9/22)
Summary:

Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5433

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A90–1, DAR 111: B47
Summary:

Observations on Ophrys plants and Thymus vulgaris. Encloses sketch of different forms of T. vulgaris [see Forms of flowers, p. 302].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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