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DCP-LETT-6064

From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A11–12, DAR 86: A94
Summary:

On the proportion of sexes in moths; Lepidoptera females command higher prices; quotes Staudinger’s catalogue [see Descent 1: 311–12].

Ticking of Anobium tessellatum [see Descent 1: 385].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6063

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 165
Summary:

Thanks for criticism of his paper [on Variation].

If external conditions induce variability, what is the internal cause?

Does not agree with Duke of Argyll that "Origin of Species" is an incorrect term.

Sees playfulness of animals as a mark of the Deity’s creative playfulness.

Will visit soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6065

From:
Edward Hewitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 83–5
Summary:

On various subjects related to sexual selection: preferences, proportion of sexes. [See Descent 2: 117–18, 122.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6062

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 21)
Summary:

Defers visit [to Kew] because of ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE550

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
28 Mar 1868
Source of text:
178, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-6066

From:
Harrison William Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 86–7
Summary:

Recognition of colour by animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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