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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 March 1867
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 19-20
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 March [1867]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 20
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 140-141]
- Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 230-231]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 38
Summary:
On improving the educational system.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[7 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.190
Summary:
Not willing to be involved in translation of French work on astronomy [see JB's 1867-2].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
7 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 20–20v)
Summary:
Grateful for addresses of informants, especially that of Rajah James Brooke.
Dispatch of queries on expression. Answers will make interesting appendix to his "Essay on man" [Descent].
Protective adaptation of female butterflies believed probable.
Believes in sexual selection as applied to man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 362
Summary:
Has been hunting for an otter-hound for CD.
Hopes CD will visit his museum at the Horticultural [Society].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[mid March 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Baldwin
Date:
[10 March 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0076 & L-0075; Reel 1054
Summary:
Gives more reasons for objecting to MB, 80 years old, leaving Stubbington and moving to Anstey [see JH's 1867-2-10].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
10 March 1867
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/82
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 82: A36–9, A46–7
Summary:
Sexual ornamentation of insects: coloration of Epicalia genus [of tropical S. American butterflies];
horned genera of lamellicorn beetles [see Descent 1: 370, 388].
Wallace brought CD’s question about gay-coloured caterpillars before the Entomological Society. Members now seeking explanations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B24, B45; DAR 82: A22
Summary:
ARW responds to CD’s list of queries about expression. Suggests acquiring informants through publishing the queries in newspapers. His doubts about their importance.
Has submitted caterpillar question to Entomological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 March [1867]
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B24
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 78-79
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 180-181]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[12–17] Mar [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 80–83v)
Summary:
Asks to be kept informed on gaudy caterpillars.
Problems of his work on man; scope and role of sexual selection.
Indulgence of interest in expression is simply a "hobby-horse". Will see whether he can get queries inserted in an Indian newspaper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
[Norman Macleod]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1867]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/1.206 verso; Reel 10
Summary:
Grateful for JH's contribution of portraits [to National Portrait Exhibition]. Packing and shipping instructions. Portraits must arrive by 30 Mar.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Benjamin Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 157/1, 158
Summary:
Requests CD’s subscription to his On systematic botany and zoology [1870]. "Progressive development" is a leading principle of his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
14 March 1867
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 28
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
14 March 1867
Source of text:
ML MSS.562 Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-9, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
14 March 1867
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 258
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 145–6
Summary:
Has been persuaded to accept BAAS Presidency.
On Charles Naudin’s discovery of seeds of Chamaerops fertilised by the date-palm.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Norman Macleod
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1867]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/1.194 verso; Reel 10
Summary:
[Form letter] Safe receipt of William Herschel's portrait.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project