From W. D. Fox 9 December [1868]
Summary
Hybrid geese.
Proportions of sexes in sheep and cattle.
Pairing habits of crows.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 126–7, DAR 85: B36–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6455 |
From G. R. Crotch [after 16 October 1868]
Summary
Lists stridulating organs of various Coleoptera.
| Author: | George Robert Crotch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 16 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 81: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6530 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 Cryptorhynchus Lapathi elytron 13 Acalles argillosus Teneriffe elytron 14 Cript. Lapathi
♂ 15 Ceuth Echii. elytra. 16 acalles argillosus♀ 17 Elaphrus uliginosus♀ 18 Necrophorus vespillo♂ ♀ 19 Aromia moschata 20 Saperda carcharias 21 strangalia elongata 22 Mesosa nubila 23 Clytus arietis 24 Agapanthia lineatocollis 25 Pachyta collaris 26 …
From Roland Trimen 13 January 1868
Summary
Variations in the ocelli of Lepidoptera.
Encloses six pages from his catalogue of S. African butterflies [Rhopalocera Africae australis, 2 pts (1862, 1866)].
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 40–2, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5785 |
To W. W. Reade 21 May [1868]
Summary
Thanks WWR for information in answer to his queries concerning expression.
Asks when horns first appear among a breed of sheep on the Guinea coast,
and for information about the gorilla and chimpanzee.
Asks about African ideas of beauty.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Winwood Reade |
| Date: | 21 May [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.371) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6754 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 November 1867 , and this volume, letter from Edward Wilson, 19 February 1868 . He had also received answers to an earlier set of questions concerning Fuegians ( Correspondence vol. 15, letter from B. J. Sulivan, 11 January 1867) , and recollections of the peoples of South America ( letter from David Forbes, 26 …
From Charles William Nunn 23 September 1868
Summary
Sends an ear of wheat that has an oat kernel growing on it.
| Author: | Charles W Nunn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6387 |
To Fritz Müller 28 November 1868
Summary
Delay in translating Für Darwin.
Comments on plan to repeat CD’s experiments on illegitimate offspring.
FM’s observations on stridulation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6483 |
To Ernst Haeckel 6 February [1868]
Summary
Delighted to hear of success of EH’s lectures.
Ernest Faivre [La variabilité des espèces (1868)] sees no reason to favour common descent of allied species.
Asks EH to pass German edition of Variation on to Gegenbaur.
Comments on work of Miklucho[-Maclay], Dohrn, and Bleek.
Has begun work on Descent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5841 |
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 J. D. Hooker 3 February [1868]
Summary
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 44–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5835 |
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Crotch, G. R. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Nunn, C. W. | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Reade, W. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Crotch, G. R. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
