From ? 6 April 1868
Summary
Gives details of some points that occurred to him while reading Variation, including observations on horses, cattle, silkworms, and hereditary baldness and disease.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6097 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 April 1868
Summary
Goes to N. Wales with Huxley.
Wishes to borrow Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law.
The BAAS Presidential Address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv] – his unhappiness about it; history of botany requires too much reading.
Smith will supply notes on Euryale.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 208–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6099 |
From W. E. Darwin [7 April 1868]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6100 |
From C. S. Bate 7 April 1868
Summary
On dentition of moles. On double teeth [see Variation 2: 391].
Difference in size of male and female Crustacea.
Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A67–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6101 |
From Ernest Faivre 7 April 1868
Author: | Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6102 |
To W. E. Darwin 8 April [1868]
Summary
Thanks Charles Langstaff for his observations relating to expression. Has requested observations on the platysma. Discusses the actions of other facial muscles, especially during crying. [Encloses 5828.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 124, 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6103 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 [April] 1868
Summary
If CD is not convinced by his notes on sterility, ARW has little doubt that he is wrong. In fact he was only half-convinced by his own arguments.
Modifies his first proposition [a species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to free inter-crossing the variations never increase] and further discusses the subject.
Encloses Berthold Seemann’s notes on flora of the Hawaiian Islands. Presence of European alpine species in Hawaiian volcanoes is a "hard nut" for geographical distribution [but see ARW’s Island life (1880), p. 323].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 [Apr] 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B57-8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6104 |
From G. R. Gray 8 April 1868
Author: | George Robert Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6105 |
From Giovanni Canestrini 8 April 1868
Summary
Reports on Prof. Cornalia’s observations on the proportion of sexes in bees, and in healthy and sick silk moths, in nature and under domestication.
Author: | Giovanni Canestrini |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6106 |
From W. S. Dallas 8 April 1868
Summary
He never intended "A Lift for Darwin" as a serious title but as a way of arranging it. Lyell’s suggestion seems best to him: "Facts and Arguments For Darwin".
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6107 |
From John Smith 8 April 1868
Summary
Notes the differences in seed production between cross- and self-fertilized flowers of Victoria regia.
Author: | John Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6108 |
To A. R. Wallace 9 April [1868]
Summary
Warns ARW of dubious character of list of European alpine genera and species in volcanoes of Hawaii. Problems of geographical distribution in oceanic islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 9 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6109 |
From James Samuelson 10 April 1868
Author: | James Samuelson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6110 |
From Albert Gaudry 11 April 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Variation.
CD’s work on pigeons demonstrates the close relationship between modifications in soft tissues and the hard parts, which are the only ones we possess in the fossil state.
Author: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6111 |
To B. D. Walsh 13 April [1868]
Summary
BDW’s letter [6051?] and his notes are a "mine of wealth". The negative evidence is of much value. Sexual selection is a perplexing subject – finds he "must make the best of a rather bad job".
Sends copy [of Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 13 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6113 |
To John Murray 13 April [1868]
Summary
Asks JM to send Variation to G. Boccardo in Italy.
Sends title (suggested by Lyell) for translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin (which Dallas is translating). CD does not wish to go to great expense in advertising it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 13 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 184–185) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6114 |
From George Henslow 13 April 1868
Summary
Thanks for Casimir de Candolle’s paper ["Théorie de l’angle unique en phyllotaxie", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 23 (1865): 199–212].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6115 |
From Roland Trimen 13 April 1868
Summary
Extract from Émile Blanchard’s Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insectes [1868], on attraction of males by female Lepidoptera, and possible explanation.
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 85: B50–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6116 |
To Roland Trimen 14 April [1868]
Summary
Has tried using dealers’ price-lists as a guide to sex ratios in Lepidoptera; finds numerous cases in which the sexes bring different prices and in virtually all of them the males are cheaper. This seems to confirm the impression of the field collectors.
Wishes RT good luck with natural history in S. Africa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 14 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 68) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6117 |
From Richard Trevor Clarke 14 [April 1868]
Summary
Solicits CD’s support for the newly set up Royal Horticultural Society’s Scientific Committee.
Very pleased that he was put into CD’s book [Variation 1: 352].
Sends "hybridising pincers" of his own making.
Author: | Richard Trevor Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 [Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6118 |
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