From George Cupples 26 May 1868
Summary
Refers to letter from John Wright offering to help CD on his queries about deerhounds and sexual preferences.
More details about a terrier bitch previously referred to [letter missing].
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 127–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6211 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Mayhew . See letter from George Cupples, 11–13 May 1868 and 3d enclosure. See nn. 3 and …
- … had offered CD a deerhound puppy (see letter from George Cupples, 11–13 May 1868 ). …
- … See letter from George Cupples, 11–13 May 1868 and n. 9. The uncle has not been …
- … taken from a letter of Wright’s dated 11 May 1868, in his letter to CD of 13 July 1868 . …
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From George Cupples 11–13 May 1868 …
- … 83: 121–6, DAR 85: B28 George Cupples Guard Bridge 11–13 May 1868 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 13 July 1868 ). His other correspondents were probably John Wright (see letter from George Cupples, 26 May 1868 ) and J. G. R. Barr (see letter from J. G. R. Barr to George Cupples [after 11 …
From J. R. G. Barr to George Cupples [after 11 May 1868?]
Author: | John Robert Goodwin Barr |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | [after 11 May 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 85: B27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6527 |
From George Cupples 13 July 1868
Summary
Offers deerhound puppy.
Asks for photograph.
Encloses letter from George Cupples of notes, with excerpts from letters from Peter Robertson and John Wright, relating to difference in size between male and female deerhounds. Reports on weight statistics of ten [deerhound] puppies being observed.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 129–32; DAR 161: 285 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6274 |
From J. J. Weir [after 27 February] 1868
Summary
Trusts his paper ["Apterous Lepidoptera" (1867), printed for the West Kent Natural History, Microscopical, and Photographic Society] showed that he is thoroughly a disciple of CD.
Cites evidence that birds undoubtedly distinguish colours. [see Descent 2: 110.]
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 27 Feb] 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 77–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5939 |
From J. B. Innes 4 December 1868
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6492 |
To Albert Günther 15 May [1868]
Summary
Thanks for answer to questions.
Has analogous questions on reptiles that he will send to AG. The subject interests him, but CD must try not to fall into his common error of "being too speculative".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 15 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7191 |
From B. D. Walsh 29 August 1868
Summary
On the delay in receiving CD’s new book [Variation] and his delight in a borrowed copy.
Encloses a Prospectus on his new periodical "American Entomologist" devoted to economic entomology.
Comments on the talents of his young partner, C. V. Riley.
Requests photographs for Riley of CD and Westwood.
Dr J. L. Le Conte has not yet received the request that he furnish CD with information about the stridulatory organs of Coleoptera.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Charles Valentine Riley papers, Scrapbook no. 9, p. 61); DAR 47: 180; DAR 193: 54; Field Museum (pasted into C. V. Riley’s personal copy of his own 1st Annual Report of the Missouri State Entomologist) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6332A |
To Roland Trimen 16 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks RT for drawings of ocelli, especially for the description of ocelli of S. African Saturniidae. Would like to know of any cases in which the ocelli are confined to the male, to illustrate better the case of the peacock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 16 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5790 |
To B. D. Walsh 21 September 1868
Summary
Thanks BDW for pamphlets [by S. H. Scudder and J. D. Caton].
His information about Cicada is of extraordinary interest. Discusses stridulation organs which certainly sometimes differ in the sexes. CD would be curious to know if "dumb" Cicada can breed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 21 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6382 |
From Tristram Charles Sawyer Speedy 29 September 1868
Author: | Tristram Charles Sawyer Speedy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6398 |
From G. R. Crotch [after 16 October 1868]
Author: | George Robert Crotch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 16 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6530 |
From F. F. Geach 4 July 1868
Author: | Frederick F. Geach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 23/2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6267F |
From J. E. Gray 15 February 1868
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5880 |
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 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 |
From Robert Swinhoe 4 August 1868
Summary
Discusses a domestic oriental fowl.
Is having problems getting answers to CD’s queries on expression as Chinese facial expressions are limited and controlled. Answers as well as he can. [See Expression index.]
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6303 |
From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 1 January 186[8]
Summary
HCW’s criticisms of CD’s theory.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Jan 186[8] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105 f. 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5077F |
To James Croll 19 September 1868
Summary
Discusses papers by JC dealing with erosion. Comments on papers on the subject by J. B. Jukes, A. C. Ramsay, and William Whitaker. Formerly believed in power of the sea. Never fully realised the truth until reading JC’s papers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Croll |
Date: | 19 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 352 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6380 |
From Robert Brough Smyth 13 August 1868
Summary
Relates some observations on expression among Australian aboriginals and encloses answers to CD’s queries from other observers. [These include letters and observations from: J. A. Hagenauer, 28 May 1868; Archibald Grahame Lang, 17 June 1868; H. B. Lane, 24 June 1868; Templeton Bunnett, 25 June 1868; J. Bulmer (1868). (See introduction to Expression.)]
Author: | Robert Brough Smyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 205–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6314 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 11. Fear is expressed in the same manner as by Europeans, and in extreme cases they will lift both arm above the head. N o 12. I have often seen tears coming into their eyes by great laughter. N o 13. …
- … 11. Is extreme fear expressed in the same general manner as with Europeans? I think so. N o 12. Is laughter ever carried to such an extreme as to bring tears into the eyes? I never saw this effect with Aboriginals N o 13. …
- … 11. Is extreme fear expressed in the same general manner as with Europeans? Yes N o 12. Is laughter ever carried to such an extreme as to bring tears into the eyes? Tho' indulging in the heartiest fits of laughter they do not produce the effect of bringing tears into the eyes. N o 13. …
- … 11 During the time I have had the circular I have not seen a case of extreme fear No 12 Laughter is often carried to such an extent that tears are brought into the eyes the Blks have a keen sense of the ludicrous. They are excellent mimics and when one is a
〈 ble to i〉 mitate the peculiarities of some absent member of the tribe, it is very common〈 to hear〉 all in the〈 camp convulsed with laughter〉 〈 No 13〉 〈 〉 …
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Cupples, George | (3) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Weir, J. J. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Croll, James | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Günther, Albert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
Cupples, George | (4) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Weir, J. J. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |