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DCP-LETT-6091

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
4 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:

Glad to hear about colours of Hylobates.

Cannot find any statement about which digits in man are most subject to syndactylism in Isidore Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire]’s Histoire des anomalies [1832–7].

Asks questions concerned with seasonal and sexual changes in plumage of various bird species.

Does male woodpecker share in incubation?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6092

From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 76
Summary:

MTM did not write Gardeners’ Chronicle review of Variation [(1868): 184].

Encloses letters supporting a project [Botanical Congress?] to promote horticulture, and hopes CD will reconsider giving his support.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6090

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
4 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD thanks JJW for the mine of information his last "ten!" letters contain. Comments on sexual display of pheasants and colour preferences of pigeons.

Asks about hens that pair earliest in spring and about possible existence of unpaired birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6094

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 136, DAR 160: 213
Summary:

Discusses the human foot and its abnormalities; notes an example of syndactylism.

Gives his observations on sexual differences in coloration of terns and ostriches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6149

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 and 8 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 81; Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 34)
Summary:

Langstaff has seen no trace of blushing on the body.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6093

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 74
Summary:

George Rolleston’s son was born with a scar on his knee exactly where GR cut himself with a knife years before his marriage. Gives several other examples of inherited mutilation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6096

From:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 363
Summary:

Sends Salmon Fisheries Report. Asks for CD’s opinion on his "close season" chapter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 April [1868]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 125-129
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 207-209]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-68-04-06

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
6 April 1868
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 208, no. 572, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6098

From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 184
Summary:

Has asked gentlemen who administer chloroform to make observations [on expression?] for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12670

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander J. B. Hope
Date:
[6 April 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0091; Reel 1054
Summary:

Opposes parliamentary bill to adopt French metric system. Explains weaknesses of system.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6095

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 125–9)
Summary:

More on the "terrible problem" of natural selection and sterility. CD’s reasons for disagreeing with ARW. CD analyses and answers ARW in detail in defence of his conclusion that sterility cannot be increased through natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6097

From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 159: 139
Summary:

Gives details of some points that occurred to him while reading Variation, including observations on horses, cattle, silkworms, and hereditary baldness and disease.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6076

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7–15 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 80/4
Summary:

Langstaff has never seen the platysma act, and he believes it to be rudimentary in humans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6101

From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A67–8
Summary:

On dentition of moles. On double teeth [see Variation 2: 391].

Difference in size of male and female Crustacea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6100

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 99
Summary:

Describes the action of facial muscles at the onset of crying as observed by Langstaff.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6102

From:
Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 3
Summary:

Thanks for sending Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6099

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 208–9
Summary:

Goes to N. Wales with Huxley.

Wishes to borrow Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law.

The BAAS Presidential Address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv] – his unhappiness about it; history of botany requires too much reading.

Smith will supply notes on Euryale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel13726

From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0082; Reel 1087
Summary:

Thanks JH for calling AH's attention to 'mischievous & preposterous metric measure bill.' Will work to defeat it [in Parliament].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6106

From:
Giovanni Canestrini
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A28–9
Summary:

Reports on Prof. Cornalia’s observations on the proportion of sexes in bees, and in healthy and sick silk moths, in nature and under domestication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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