From Asa Gray 25 May 1868
Summary
CD’s book taking on famously. AG’s review in Nation [see 5921] and preface to American edition.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6206 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 26 May 1868
Summary
Did not know of complex change of plumage. From WBT’s letter, CD thinks six weeks to two months old is the best period. Sends details of breeds and other particulars.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 26 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6210 |
To John Murray 25 May 1868
Summary
Asks JM to consider publishing a MS on John Wesley by CD’s niece, Frances Julia Wedgwood [John Wesley and the evangelical reaction of the eighteenth century (1870)].
Has received clean sheets for Italian translation [of Variation?].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 25 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.186–189) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6207 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 May [1868]
Summary
JDH too severe on Duke of Argyll.
Pities JDH on [BAAS] address [see 6099]; Huxley feels JDH will do well and will not pity him.
Thinks Huxley will give an excellent and original lecture on geographical distribution of birds.
Has been working hard on sexual selection and correspondence about it.
Mignonette is sterile with its own pollen but any two distinct plants are fertile together. It is utterly mysterious and not even Pangenesis will explain it.
On Lyell’s book [Principles, 10th ed.].
Wallace’s wonderful cleverness, but he is not cautious enough. CD differs from Wallace on birds’ nests and protection.
A. Murray’s miserable criticism of Wallace [J. Travel & Nat. Hist. 1 (1868): 137–45].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 May [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 62–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6196 |
To Albert Günther 12 May [1868]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 12 May [1868] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (Gunther letters 2); DAR 82: B21–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7186 |
From George Cupples 11–13 May 1868
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.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11–13 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 119–20, DAR 83: 121–6, DAR 85: B28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6169 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Cupples, George | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
