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WCP1895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 March [1868]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 123-124
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 206-207]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6047

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27] Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 3
Summary:

Discusses law versus engineering and business as a career.

Supposes ARW will have "squashed" GHD’s criticisms of his notes on sterility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4920

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.308
Summary:

Further regarding his theories on sound.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4921

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.309
Summary:

Has received the bill of William Ewart concerning the metrical scale.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4085

From:
H. Turberville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.379
Summary:

Explains conditions of his will and the distribution of his estate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1156

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
27 March 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.107-108, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-6060

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
27 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A119–20
Summary:

Thanks RT for letter which saves him from a "terrible mistake": that no moths were more brilliantly coloured beneath than above. Suggests revised version for comment. [See Descent 1: 397.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6061

From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A120v
Summary:

Approves CD’s revision on coloration of moths.

Impressed with apparent adverse tendencies: one toward sexual selection, the other toward protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6058

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 123–4)
Summary:

There are so many doubtful points on the problems relating to sterility that they will never agree.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6059

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
27 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for information [about sex ratios] received from bird-catchers.

"Can you form any theory about all the many cases which you have given me and others which have been published, of when one pair is killed, another soon appearing?"

Facts about gay-coloured caterpillars very satisfactory.

Comments on Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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