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DCP-LETT-6085

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
3 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 23)
Summary:

Movement in plants.

Dimorphism.

Would welcome FM’s opinion of Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence 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-6109

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

Warns ARW of dubious character of list of European alpine genera and species in volcanoes of Hawaii. Problems of geographical distribution in oceanic islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6121

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 133–5)
Summary:

Admires ARW’s "Theory of birds’ nests" [J. Travel & Nat. Hist. 1 (1868): 73].

Discusses their respective views on birds’ nests, sexual selection, and protection.

Asks why, if brilliant colours of female butterflies are result of protective mimicry, do not males become equally brilliant? CD believes variation in females alone accounts for it, rather than protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6146

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
30 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 136–9)
Summary:

More on CD’s objections to ARW’s views on protection and natural selection.

Sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6161

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 May [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 140–1)
Summary:

Criticism of ARW for too little esteem of the role of sexual selection as agent in giving colour.

Response to other topics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6224

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
3 June 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 24)
Summary:

Is glad FM approves of a translation of Für Darwin.

Hopes FM will think well of Pangenesis.

Sexual differences in insect auditory and stridulating organs.

Read FM’s paper on Balanus with great interest ["On Balanus armatus", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 1 (1868): 393–412].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6267G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
4 July 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9485)
Summary:

Thanks for interesting letter. ‘How very curious the case of the bright-coloured birds which conceal themselves in holes!’

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6320

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
17 Aug 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 25)
Summary:

FM’s additions for English edition [1869] of Für Darwin.

Dimorphic plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 143–6)
Summary:

The problem of dimorphic plants and their fertility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6356F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
8 Sept 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9485)
Summary:

Thanks for answers to questions, but declines loan of specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6368

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 149–50)
Summary:

CD’s oscillating views relating to protection and sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 153–6)
Summary:

On their differences concerning sexual selection and protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6412

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 Oct [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 162–3)
Summary:

Sexual selection, protection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6483

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
28 Nov 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 26)
Summary:

Delay in translating Für Darwin.

Comments on plan to repeat CD’s experiments on illegitimate offspring.

FM’s observations on stridulation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6567

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Jan [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 165–6)
Summary:

Response to letter about dedication of Malay Archipelago and several scientific papers.

Changes in 5th ed. of Origin.

Now feels individual differences of paramount importance. Fleeming Jenkin has convinced him about "single variations".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6591

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 Feb [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 168–9)
Summary:

CD expressed himself badly. F. Jenkin’s argument was against single variations ever being perpetuated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6642

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Mar [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Reception of ARW’s book, Malay Archipelago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6662

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
14 Mar 1869
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 27)
Summary:

Translation of Für Darwin has been published [Facts and arguments for Darwin (1869)].

Discusses dimorphic plants, commenting on FM’s observations on Oxalis.

Is greatly interested in Eschscholzia, which seems somewhat more self-sterile in Brazil than in England.

Thinks FM’s grass is "most wonderful".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6668

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
18 Mar 1869
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 28)
Summary:

On English edition of Für Darwin; CD’s gratitude and admiration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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