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DCP-LETT-5418

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 83: 34, 150–1, DAR 84.1: 26–7, 138
Summary:

Discusses sexual and seasonal differences in the plumage of birds and coats of mammals.

Remarks upon variations in the form of the canine tooth between the sexes in mammalian groups.

Plumage of allied species of plover.

Asks CD’s help with work on unimproved domestic animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5416

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A19–21
Summary:

Protective role of colours in caterpillars and butterflies. Sexual differences in colours of butterflies.

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WCP4083

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 February [1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 82: A19-22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6403

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Feb 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 105–6
Summary:

Sexual differences in bird species and seasonal variation in plumage.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5419

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Feb 1867]
Source of text:
Darwin Library–CUL (bound with Siebold 1857), ML 1: 248–9
Summary:

Sends a copy [missing] of a lecture by L. Agassiz on glaciers.

Claims worker wasps can generate additional workers in the absence of the fertile female.

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WCP1875

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 February [1867]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 76-77
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 179-180]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 229]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5421

From:
Trübner & Co.
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 70
Summary:

Vladimir Kovalevsky wishes to translate Variation into Russian. He offers £1 per advance sheet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5420

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f. 76)
Summary:

ARW’s explanation of protective value of conspicuous coloration is ingenious.

CD still holds to sexual selection with respect to beauty in male butterflies.

Sexual selection and the races of man.

Expression of emotions is another subject he plans to include in his essay [Descent].

Asks ARW to suggest an observer in Malay Archipelago to whom he might send queries [on expression].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5423

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
27 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:

Asks JvH’s assistance in making observations on the expression of emotions. Encloses 17 queries that are being sent to various parts of the world.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5423F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Swinhoe
Date:
[27 Feb 1867]
Source of text:
Notes and Queries on China and Japan 1 (1867): 105
Summary:

CD’s queries on expression as reprinted in Notes and Queries on China and Japan 1 (1867): 105.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5422

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Philip Mansel Weale
Date:
27 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 47)
Summary:

Encloses his queries about expression which he asks JPMW to forward to trustworthy observers who associate with Hottentots and Kaffirs.

Contributor:
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FVM-67-02-28

From:
Charles Darwin
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 February 1867
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library, DAR 92, 33-35, England
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5424

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
Date:
28 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A33–5
Summary:

Sends his [MS] questionnaire on expression and asks FvM’s help in obtaining answers based on observations of aborigines living in the interior of Australia.

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WCP1877

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
March [1867]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 80-83
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 181-182]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5426

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 28–9
Summary:

Male dotterels take care of young and are less brilliantly coloured than females.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5337

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2–30 Mar 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 208
Summary:

Discussion of origin of domestic sheep races. Some comments on the yak and the wild ancestors of the llama and alpaca.

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DCP-LETT-5968

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 85: A98
Summary:

Pleased that CD approves his idea about caterpillars.

Thinks CD is right about selection in butterflies, but still believes protective adaptation has kept down colours of females.

Cannot yet see action of natural selection in forming the races of man.

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WCP4081

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 March [1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 85: A98
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5428

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 105: B57–8
Summary:

He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.

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DCP-LETT-5429

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 142: 102
Summary:

Reports observations on fertility of orchids he has self-pollinated and crossed with pollen of other species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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