Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 May 1868
Source of text:
Wellcome Trust: MS.7798/1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gilbert William Child
Date:
6 May [1868]
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (RCP/LEGAC/1001/64)
Summary:
Cannot judge GWC’s fitness for the Botanical Chair at Oxford. But CD appreciates his work, particularly that on spontaneous generation [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 13 (1863–4): 313; 14 (1865): 178].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gilbert William Child
Date:
[6 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 56
Summary:
Encloses a testimonial for GWC [see 6162]. Feels himself poorly qualified to give a testimonial for a botanist and apologises for his brevity.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Staudinger
Date:
6 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 491
Summary:
Asks about the ratio of male to female Lepidoptera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gilbert William Child
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 144
Summary:
Thanks CD for testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
7 May [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks JJW for his great assistance.
Discusses sexual selection in birds.
Sends queries on secondary sexual characteristics of birds.
Has often marvelled at the different growth of the flowering and creeping branches of ivy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 May [1868]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (94)
Summary:
AG’s review of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6] very good.
CD’s fondness for Pangenesis; although an "infant cherished by few", CD expects it to have a long life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.308
Summary:
JH's approval encourages HA to publish account [of hemianopsia]. JH may keep HA's drawings. Notes on attack suffered by JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
8 May 1868
Source of text:
179, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[8 May 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.216
Summary:
Comments on several aspects of poetry, including EC's; JH has been quite ill; talks about walking on water with a water velocipede.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Cromwell Fleetwood Varley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 May 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 30-32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 May 1868
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/287
- Wallace, A. R. (1905). In: My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions. Vol. 2. London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 291-293]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 168: 58
Summary:
Sends his notes on Florent Prévost’s reference to the habits of the cuckoo.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0411; Reel 1087
Summary:
Informal request for JH to write biography of W. R. Dawes for R.A.S. Recent marriages in CP's family.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
10 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 838
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11–13 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 119–20, DAR 83: 121–6, DAR 85: B28
Summary:
Answers CD’s queries on difference in size of male and female Scottish deerhounds; female preference for larger males; details about ratio of sexes born. Quotes from letter of Archibald McNeill on difference in size of male and female Scotch deerhounds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[11] [May] [1868]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/224
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Robert Goodwin Barr
To:
George Cupples
Date:
[after 11 May 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 85: B27
Summary:
Sends replies on dogs – sexual differences and preferences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
12 May [1868]
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (Gunther letters 2); DAR 82: B21–2
Summary:
Sends some questions on secondary sexual differences of fishes [missing], which he hopes AG will look over.
Invites AG to come to Down.
Encloses queries on sexual differences and nest-building habits of fish.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
12 May [1868?]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Fellows Files No. 18)
Summary:
Returns volumes of the Ibis.
Requests T. C. Jerdon’s Birds of India
and Thomas Bell’s British reptiles
as well as vols. 5 & 6 of Ibis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project