To W. B. Tegetmeier 20 May [1868]
Summary
Inquires about the colour of first plumage of poultry breeds and development of distinguishing features.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 20 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6188 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 May 1868
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.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 210–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6189 |
To J. D. Hooker [20 May 1868]
Summary
Encloses grass from locust dung sent from Natal. Asks for name of grass.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20 May 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6190 |
From Albert Müller 20 May 1868
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.
Author: | Albert Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 282 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6191 |
To Otto Staudinger 20 May 1868
Summary
Thanks for information on sex ratios of Lepidoptera.
Agrees that entomologists have best means of proving derivation of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Staudinger |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 492 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6192 |
From St G. J. Mivart 20 May 1868
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.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6193 |
From H. W. Bates 20 May 1868
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6194 |
letter | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Müller, Albert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Staudinger, Otto | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Müller, Albert | (1) |
Staudinger, Otto | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |