From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 83
Summary:
HWB thinks he can buy specimens of male and female insects at Mr Janson’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 210–13
Summary:
Trip with Huxley was perfect.
At Torquay later he had a lecture on "Kent’s hole" from Joseph Pengelly.
George Bentham acknowledges himself unreservedly a convert to Darwinism. Many will still cling to a "rag of protection, but will eventually haul it down".
A. Murray’s later parts better than first [? Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Wallace’s paper shows great ability.
Disgusted with [Duke of Argyll’s] Reign of law.
His depression and exhaustion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 68
Summary:
Encloses grass from locust dung sent from Natal. Asks for name of grass.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
St George Jackson Mivart
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 185
Summary:
Answers CD’s queries on sexual characters and differences among the Urodela.
Is interested in the relationship of pectoral and pelvic limbs in man and apes and has looked at reptiles and amphibians to find traces of the earlier conditions of the limbs.
Asks whether CD knows any instances of deformities or pathological conditions occurring simultaneously in both sets of limbs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 282
Summary:
Wilson Armistead’s death cut short his work on galls, but Müller is continuing it.
In China only uni-coloured animals are sold for meat, the rest are killed in the litter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Daily News
Date:
[20 May 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0134; Reel 1054
Summary:
JH's views on relation of British Imperial measures to length of Earth's axis were misrepresented in 18 May article. Explains them in detail. Notes scientific basis of British system.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.109-110, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Staudinger
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 147: 492
Summary:
Thanks for information on sex ratios of Lepidoptera.
Agrees that entomologists have best means of proving derivation of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 May [1868]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Inquires about the colour of first plumage of poultry breeds and development of distinguishing features.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project