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 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 February [1868]
Summary
Is much obliged that WBT will undertake tabulation of sex ratios in racehorses, greyhounds, and cattle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5879 |
To W. D. Fox 6 February [1867]
Summary
Has just sent MS of Variation off to printer. Is in darkness about its merits.
News of family and their health. Riding seems to help him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5392 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 26 March [1867]
Summary
Answers VOK’s questions regarding the size of forthcoming Variation and gives his consent to a translation.
But if Origin has not yet been translated into Russian, CD thinks it would be a better book to undertake.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Date: | 26 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5464 |
To Charles Kingsley 30 April [1867]
Summary
Regrets that he is too busy getting his book [Variation] ready for publication to contribute an article to Fraser’s Magazine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | B. C. Guild (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5520 |
From Henry Bence Jones 2 August 1870
Summary
CD has complained of pins and needles keeping him from working on his book [Descent]. If he could spend ten days with HBJ, he would be well and fit.
| Author: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Aug 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7293 |
Sulivan, T. E. (1846–73)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1867–8; surveyed the Mediterranean in HMS Newport , 1868–70; lieutenant on HMS Pert , stationed off the Cape of Good Hope, 1870, and the south-east coast of America, 1871–3. The National Archives (ADM 196/16/399) Navy list 1865–73 Sulivan ed. 1896 Bibliography Navy list : The navy list. London: John Murray; Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 1815–1900. Sulivan, Henry Norton, ed. 1896. Life and letters of the late Admiral Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, KCB, 1810–1890. London: John Murray. 12,13,14,18,22 Sulivan, B. …
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 6 January [1867]
Summary
Returns some of WBT’s skulls.
His MS is with printer, but book [Variation] will probably not be out until November.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1867] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5347 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … B. Tegetmeier, 18 [December 1866] and n. 4). In Variation 1: 260, CD acknowledged ‘the kindness of Mr. Tegetmeier’ in lending nearly half of the fifty-three skulls examined. Engravings of the skulls of a white-crested Polish cock and of a horned fowl appear in Variation 1: 262, 263, and 265. CD refers to the manuscript of Variation , and to the printing firm William Clowes & Sons (see letter from John Murray, 2 January [1867] ). …
To John Murray 21 and 22 December [1866]
Summary
Submits the MS of Variation, all excepting the section on Man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 21 and 22 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | Herb Sewell (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5314F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1867] ). Variation was published in January 1868 ( Freeman 1977 ). Luke Wells and George Brettingham Sowerby Jr provided illustrations for Variation (see letter from John Murray, 18 October [1866] and n. 3). CD had asked Sowerby to make some revisions to his woodcuts in October (see letter to G. B. …
To T. H. Huxley 7 January [1867]
Summary
Gives up plan to have Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie translated.
His big book [Variation] has gone to printer. Thinks of adding a chapter on man.
Will order Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
"Nature never made species mutually sterile [by selection]; nor will man.–"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1867] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 233) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5348 |
From S. P. Woodward 14 February 1863
Summary
Points out some errata in the Origin.
Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.
Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 154 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3984 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 15 February 1868]
Summary
Agrees to help determine the sex ratios in domestic animals.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 15 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5878 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1867 in Descent 1: 303. CD had written to Francis Trevelyan Buckland regarding the proportion of the sexes in fish. See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 11 February [1868] , and letter to F. T. Buckland, 12 February [1868] . The letter appeared in the Field for 22 February 1868, p. 144. Tegetmeier refers to Variation and to CD’ s publisher, John Murray . See letter to W. B. …
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