From Albert Günther [c. 23 March 1868?]
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 23 Mar 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 82.2: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6531 |
From H. W. Bates 29 September 1868
Summary
Informs CD of K. G. Semper’s desire to meet him and to discuss new information on volcanic phenomena, geographical distribution, etc.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6399 |
From Charles Owen Waterhouse 12 February 1868
Author: | Charles Owen Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A74–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5870 |
From Henry Doubleday 28 March 1868
Summary
On the proportion of sexes in moths; Lepidoptera females command higher prices; quotes Staudinger’s catalogue [see Descent 1: 311–12].
Ticking of Anobium tessellatum [see Descent 1: 385].
Author: | Henry Doubleday |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A11–12, DAR 86: A94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6064 |
From John Scott 4 May 1868
Summary
Replies to CD’s query on expression of emotions.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6160 |
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 Ernst Haeckel 23 March 1868
Summary
Has received English edition of Variation. First volume of German edition came three months ago. Comments on book.
Will send copy of recent lectures on human evolution [Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts (1868)]. Gegenbaur much interested in the subject.
Considers Selachius the ancestral form of the fish and hence of all higher vertebrates. Believes their swim-bladder became lung of amphibians.
Mentions cases of hybrid crosses between rabbits and hares producing fertile offspring.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6040 |
From Albert Günther 13 May 1868
Summary
Sends proofs of his fish paper.
Will observe modification of colour in fish.
Is studying the development of the axolotl.
Encloses notes in reply to CD’s queries on fishes.
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 242a, DAR 82: B23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6170 |
From George Henry Lewes 2 March 1868
Summary
Is engaged on an article for Fortnightly Review on Variation ["Mr Darwin’s hypotheses", n.s. 9: 353–73, 611–28; n.s. 10: 61–80, 492–509]. Asks CD some questions.
While he agrees with natural selection, he believes many "organic details" develop irrespective of advantage.
Author: | George Henry Lewes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5969 |
From H. W. Bates 20 April 1868
Summary
In addition to the drawing of a caterpillar which CD intends to use,
HWB sends information on differences of colour and pattern between the sexes of species of Papilio.
Argynnis diana and A. sagana have females that are brightly coloured, but these may be cases of protective mimicry.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A42–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6132 |
From John Wright 11 June 1868
Summary
Preference of females for particular males certainly exists occasionally.
On the proportion of males to females in horses and in dogs.
Author: | John Wright; John Osmaston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 163–4, DAR 85: B38, DAR 86: A95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6240 |
From A. R. Wallace 5 September [1868]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6350 |
From A. R. Wallace 30 August [1868]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B65–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6334 |
From J. B. Innes 14 December 1868
Summary
Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.
Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 23, 23a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6502 |
From H. W. Bates 10 September 1868
Summary
Because of work on the first number of the new Royal Geographical Society magazine, a manual of geography, and other things, HWB finds he must decline CD’s invitation.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6360 |
From J. J. Weir [before 17] October 1868
Summary
Both sexes of Crossoptilon auritum (eared pheasant) obtained the red cheeks the first year.
Coloration of the linnet.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 17] Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A36, 53; DAR 84.1: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6421 |
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 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
- … 10 disgust No 11 During the time I have had the circular I have not seen a case of extreme fear No 12 …
- … 10. Not observed. N o 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. …
- … 10. Is disgust shown by the lower lip being turned down, the upper slightly raised with a sudden expiration something like incipient vomiting or spitting something out of the mouth? N o 11. Is extreme fear expressed in the same general manner as with Europeans? I think so. N o 12. …
- … 10. Is disgust shown by the lower lip being turned down, the upper slightly raised with a sudden expiration something like incipient vomiting or spitting something out of the mouth? I have been unable to trace any outward expression of the sentiment of disgust. N o 11. Is extreme fear expressed in the same general manner as with Europeans? Yes N o 12. …
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 |
From Hugh Browne 30 May 1868
Summary
Is reading CD’s instances of inherited peculiarities of eye [Variation 2: 8–10]. Gives cases of colour-blindness of males in his family.
Author: | Hugh Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6216 |
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Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |
Innes, J. B. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |