From J. J. Weir [before 30 May 1868]
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 May 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5748 |
From W. D. Fox [before 14 May 1868]
Summary
Pairing habits of birds: polygamy among ducks and canaries.
Information on the proportion of sexes in fowls and other birds.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 14 May 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5762 |
To T. H. Huxley [before 18 May 1868]
Summary
Questions on marmosets and the vocal organs of Hylobates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [before 18 May 1868] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 373) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6148 |
From J. J. Weir [4–7] May 1868
Summary
Proportion of sexes in ruffs [see Descent 1: 306].
Colour display in linnets, songbirds. Courtship display of Australian pigeon at zoo.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4–7] May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 75–6, DAR 86: C3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6151 |
From A. R. Wallace 1 May [1868]
Summary
Answers CD’s objection [see 6121 and 6146] about sexual differences and protective colouring. Summarises his theory of colour in nature.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 191–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6153 |
To George Bentham 1 May [1868]
Summary
Sends Ernst Haeckel’s [Generelle] Morphologie [1866] and C. K. Sprengel’s book [Entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur (1793)].
A. Gaudry and L. Rütimeyer have declared in favour of CD’s views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 1 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 702) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6154 |
From James Murie 1 May 1868
Author: | James Murie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B124, B156–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6155 |
From B. D. Walsh 1 May 1868
Summary
BDW believes the coloration of species [of Anthocaris] provides a case of sexual selection.
The state of entomology in the U. S.; Darwinism now a common creed, especially among entomologists.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A115–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6156 |
From George Cupples 1 May 1868
Summary
Has read Variation;
is preparing a monograph on Scotch deerhounds. Offers CD information on size of male and female deerhounds.
Might not the effect of human mother’s imagination on "character of offspring" support Pangenesis?
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 283 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6157 |
From Edward Blyth 3 May 1868
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6158 |
From Gilbert William Child 3 May [1868]
Author: | Gilbert William Child |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6159 |
From John Scott 4 May 1868
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6160 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 May [1868]
Summary
Criticism of ARW for too little esteem of the role of sexual selection as agent in giving colour.
Response to other topics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 May [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 140–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6161 |
To G. W. Child 6 May [1868]
Summary
Cannot judge GWC’s fitness for the Botanical Chair at Oxford. But CD appreciates his work, particularly that on spontaneous generation [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 13 (1863–4): 313; 14 (1865): 178].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gilbert William Child |
Date: | 6 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (RCP/LEGAC/1001/64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6162 |
To G. W. Child [6 May 1868]
Summary
Encloses a testimonial for GWC [see 6162]. Feels himself poorly qualified to give a testimonial for a botanist and apologises for his brevity.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gilbert William Child |
Date: | [6 May 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6163 |
To Otto Staudinger 6 May [1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Staudinger |
Date: | 6 May [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 491 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6164 |
To J. J. Weir 7 May [1868]
Summary
Thanks JJW for his great assistance.
Discusses sexual selection in birds.
Sends queries on secondary sexual characteristics of birds.
Has often marvelled at the different growth of the flowering and creeping branches of ivy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 7 May [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6165 |
From G. W. Child 7 May [1868]
Author: | Gilbert William Child |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6166 |
To Asa Gray 8 May [1868]
Summary
AG’s review of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6] very good.
CD’s fondness for Pangenesis; although an "infant cherished by few", CD expects it to have a long life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (94) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6167 |
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 |
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