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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[spring 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 57
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ernst Heyne
To:
Messrs Baptist & Sons
Date:
March 1868
Source of text:
ML MSS Let 162/17, item 14, Mitchell Library, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[late March 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Doubleday
Date:
1 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
George W. Platzman (private collection)
Summary:
Has been interested in copy of HD’s letter to H. T. Stainton on numerical proportions of the sexes of insects. Do they vary during different years?
Does he have opinions about the courtships of butterflies?
Will send a copy of his paper on Primula when it is published. [See 5997.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[1 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.213
Summary:
Comments on the death of a number of friends, his own poor health, and how he spent the winter working through his double-star observations.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 106: B49–50, B53–5
Summary:
Offers enclosure demonstrating that natural selection could produce sterility of hybrids.
More on Pangenesis and the inadequacy of H. Spencer’s approach.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 March 1868
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B49-50
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B53-56
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 112-113
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 199-200]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 159–60
Summary:
Canine teeth in males are always larger than in females and certainly so in Cervulus moschus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
2 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Winterbourne House and Garden, University of Birmingham (University Herbarium) (WBHERB.HST.L.25.1)
Summary:
Thanks JEG for answering questions so fully and clearly, especially as he is troubled with his eyes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henry Lewes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 106: D5–6
Summary:
Is engaged on an article for Fortnightly Review on Variation ["Mr Darwin’s hypotheses", n.s. 9: 353–73, 611–28; n.s. 10: 61–80, 492–509]. Asks CD some questions.
While he agrees with natural selection, he believes many "organic details" develop irrespective of advantage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
2 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 23)
Summary:
Thanks HTS for his valuable information. Hopes to arrive at probable answer to question of proportion of males to females in the progeny of butterflies bred in domestication.
On courtship of butterflies, CD believes something more than chance is involved in determining which male is successful.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3] Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 51–2 and DAR 82: A107–8
Summary:
Aggressive behaviour of a bullfinch toward new arrival in JJW’s aviary.
Sexual differences in goldfinches: size of beaks.
Sexual selection in Lepidoptera.
Thinks Dr Alex Wallace’s observations on Bombyx not conclusive in proving that no preference is shown by females.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A65–6
Summary:
Quotes information from Dr Power on colour of sexes of Crustacea in Mauritius [see Descent 1: 335].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 35)
Summary:
Asks CD to collect from the Jermyn Street Museum a box containing a skull and bones which belong to Mr Cumberbatch.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl von Hügel
Date:
3 March 1868
Source of text:
Aussenstelle, Bundesarchiv, Frankfurt am Main
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl von Martius
Date:
3 March 1868
Source of text:
Martiusiana, II, A, 2, Handschriften-Abteilung, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ferdinand Krauss
Date:
3 March 1868
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 204–7
Summary:
Now quite understands Pangenesis. Satisfaction given by it, as CD says, may depend on one’s mental constitution. In all cases of descent JDH has always thought "all the properties of the parents are transmitted in the one cell and were diffused to every part of the future offspring".
Tyndall believes he feels atoms as firmly as St Paul believed he saw Christ.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.168
Summary:
Sending him photographs and mounts for him to sign and return. Can keep one for himself. Remembers the day she spent with him.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 357
Summary:
JM offers a note for 400 guineas as author’s payment on sale of 1250 copies of 2d issue of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project