To Edward Blyth 23 February [1867]
Summary
Many of EB’s remarks about Origin [4th ed. (1866)] are new to CD.
Thinks of writing a short essay on man.
Struck by EB’s remarks about orang. They are similar to Carl Vogt’s remarks on origin of man from distinct ape families.
Thinks similarity of orang to Malay must be accidental.
Will send Variation when it is published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | 23 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5413 |
To Paul Rohrbach 23 February [1867]
Summary
Thanks PR for his memoir on Epipogium ["Über den Blüthenbau von Epipogium" (1866)]. The structure and manner of fertilisation are new to CD;
he has long suspected that the classification of orchids requires considerable modification.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Paul Rohrbach |
Date: | 23 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 228–229 ) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5414 |
To Alfred Russel Wallace 23 February 1867
Summary
Asks why caterpillars are sometimes beautifully coloured. It poses a problem for view that sexual selection is the explanation of colours of male butterflies.
More on mimetic butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 23 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | Marchant ed. 1916, 1: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5415 |
From A. R. Wallace 24 February [1867]
Summary
Protective role of colours in caterpillars and butterflies. Sexual differences in colours of butterflies.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A19–21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5416 |
From Edward Blyth 24 February 1867
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.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 34, 150–1, DAR 84.1: 26–7, 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5418 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh [25 February 1867]
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.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL (bound with Siebold 1857), ML 1: 248–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5419 |
To A. R. Wallace 26 February [1867]
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].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 26 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5420 |
From Trübner & Co 26 February 1867
Summary
Vladimir Kovalevsky wishes to translate Variation into Russian. He offers £1 per advance sheet.
Author: | Trübner & Co. |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5421 |
To J. P. M. Weale 27 February [1867]
Summary
Encloses his queries about expression which he asks JPMW to forward to trustworthy observers who associate with Hottentots and Kaffirs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 27 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 47) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5422 |
To Julius von Haast 27 February [1867]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 27 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5423 |
To Robert Swinhoe [27 February 1867]
Summary
CD’s queries on expression as reprinted in Notes and Queries on China and Japan 1 (1867): 105.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Swinhoe |
Date: | [27 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | Notes and Queries on China and Japan 1 (1867): 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5423F |
To Ferdinand von Mueller 28 February [1867]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
Date: | 28 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A33–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5424 |
To E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung [19 March 1867]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Date: | [19 Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5425 |
From Alfred Newton 1 March 1867
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5426 |
From E. A. Darwin 3 March 1867
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.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5428 |
From Fritz Müller 4 March 1867
Summary
Reports observations on fertility of orchids he has self-pollinated and crossed with pollen of other species.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5429 |
To Alfred Newton 4 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for information about the dotterel.
CD had ascertained by dissection that the female of the carrion-hawk of the Falkland Islands is very much brighter coloured than the male. Has inquired about its nidification. Mentions other instances of female birds that are brighter and more beautiful than the males and suggests causes for this anomaly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 4 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5430 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 March [1867]
Summary
Asks whether WBT can carry out poultry mating experiments for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 5 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5431 |
To Frederic William Farrar 5 March 1867
Summary
Much obliged for lecture [On some defects in public school education (1867)]. Would leave classics to those with zeal and taste for appreciation. Learned nothing at school except by reading and experimenting in chemistry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
Date: | 5 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5432 |
From John Traherne Moggridge 6 March [1867]
Summary
Observations on Ophrys plants and Thymus vulgaris. Encloses sketch of different forms of T. vulgaris [see Forms of flowers, p. 302].
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A90–1, DAR 111: B47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5433 |
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