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DCP-LETT-5983

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jonathan Peel
Date:
6 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 8059)
Summary:

Obliged for JP’s account of sheep. Such articles would make naturalists think more of natural selection.

E. A. Darwin’s health bad.

Asks about sex ratio in sheep births.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6009

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
13 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Egerton MS 2952: 8–10)
Summary:

Thanks for facts about birds displaying plumage during courtship; "for Butterflies I must trust to analogy altogether in regard to sexual selection".

Invites JJW to visit in summer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6014

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
16 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 22)
Summary:

CD arranging for a translation of FM’s Für Darwin by W. S. Dallas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 [Mar 1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 43434: 115–17)
Summary:

On his Primula paper for the Linnean Society ["On the specific difference between Primula veris, Brit. Fl. (var. officialis, Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. var. acaulis, Linn.), and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the hybrid nature of the common oxlip; with supplementary remarks on naturally produced hybrids of the genus Verbascum", [officinalis!?] J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].

Peacocks and sexual selection.

ARW’s sterility argument has driven CD’s sons half-mad.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6033

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[21 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 119–20); DAR 106: B160–3
Summary:

On problem of sterility, CD cannot persuade himself that it has been gained by natural selection.

On sexual selection and minute variations, he tends to agree with ARW. Sends George Darwin’s notes on ARW’s argument.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6058

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 123–4)
Summary:

There are so many doubtful points on the problems relating to sterility that they will never agree.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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