To Francis Darwin 8 [June? 1868]
Summary
A cheque written out for FD has never been presented to CD’s bankers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 8 [June? 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5769 |
From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin [after 16 October 1868]
Summary
Has been working with G. R. Crotch on stridulation. The sexual theory seems very shaky.
Is sending preparations of beetles.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [after 16 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A96–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5761 |
To Francis Darwin 30 August [1867–70]
Summary
Asks FD to check whether a Latin sentence is correct.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug [1867-70] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7312 |
To F. T. Buckland 29 February [1868]
Summary
CD sends thanks for information; he will write to Mr Bush.
In relation to the fecundation of ova CD adds that he has compared the use of very little pollen against an immense supply; found no difference in number or weight of seeds or in their germination.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Date: | 29 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5956 |
To Francis Trevelyan Buckland 12 February [1868]
Summary
CD is much interested in FB’s remarks in Land and Water on the apparent excess of male trout over females and asks for further information on other fish, birds, and domestic quadrupeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5866 |
From George Robert Crotch 2 October [1868]
Summary
Bibliographical references on [stridulation in] Coleoptera. Finds no idea of sex has occurred to authors [i.e., they do not find the stridulating organs differing according to sex; cf. Descent 1: 378–85].
| Author: | George Robert Crotch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6407 |
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- … see letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, [after 16 October 1868] ). …
- … also letter from Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin, [after 16 October 1868] and n. 6. Jean …
- … 1868 in Bridgnorth, Shropshire ( England and Wales civil registration indexes , London, 1868, vol. 6a, p. 1153 (General Register Office)). The Monday following 2 October 1868 was 5 October. No letter from CD to Crotch asking about stridulation in beetles has been found; however, the question may have been raised with Crotch by Francis Darwin ( …
- … 1868 , and CD’s notes in DAR 81: 24–9). Crotch also refers to the weevils Ceutorhynchus and Cryptorhynchus , in the family Curculionidae. Archiv für Naturgeschichte , edited by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson , included essay reviews of works published in various fields of natural history during the previous year. The review of Westring 1847 is in part 2 of volume 14 (1848): 42–4. CD acknowledged Crotch for specimens and information in Descent 1: 379 nn. 70 and 72. The reference is to Francis Darwin ; …
- … Francis had worked with CD on stridulation during his summer vacation from Cambridge University (see letter to A. R. Wallace, 16 September [1868] and n. 2), where Crotch was a librarian. Crotch refers to Hermann Landois and to Landois 1867 . An annotated copy of Landois 1867 is in the Darwin …
To Francis Galton 25 January [1868?]
Summary
FG’s congratulations [on publication of Variation] have given CD pleasure.
Trusts that FG is well again.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1868?] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5800 |
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 |
From F. T. Buckland 6 April [1868]
Summary
Sends Salmon Fisheries Report. Asks for CD’s opinion on his "close season" chapter.
| Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 363 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6096 |
To W. D. Fox 21 October [1868]
Summary
Reminds WDF to write about the "great magpie marriage". Sexual selection an "everlasting subject".
News of his children.
Asks for information on instances of sexual preference in animals and data on numbers of males and females born in various domesticated species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1868] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 149); DAR 266 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6426 |
Variation US ed.: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. New York: Orange Judd & Co. [1868.]
To Julius von Haast 28 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks JvH for J. Stack’s answers [to queries about expression]. Though few, they are the best and clearest he has received. Sends a corrected printed version of queries.
Belatedly thanks JvH for his splendid report on glaciers [missing].
CD lives "in constant state of overwork and fatigue".
Everyone astonished by Dinornis photos.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Date: | 28 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5808 |
From Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin 25 January [1868]
Summary
Expresses her pleasure at seeing George Darwin’s name as Second Wrangler.
| Author: | Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 34–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5799 |
From F. T. Buckland 27 February 1868
Summary
On the proportion of sexes in salmon, trout, and rats. [see Descent 1: 305, 308.]
| Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: A46–8b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5946 |
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Has investigated whether it makes a difference if extracts [of alkaloid poisons] are made from leaves, seeds, or roots.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9199 |
To Francis Darwin? [1879–80?]
Summary
Discusses A. B. Frank’s views [Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie (1868)] on how plants position themselves; differences and similarities compared with their own conclusions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [1879–80?] |
| Classmark: | DAR LIB 2003/2004 (in box with A. B. Frank, Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie, 1868, and Die natürliche wagerechte Richtung von Pflanzentheilen, 1870) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11816 |
To Alfred Wrigley 11 March [1868]
Summary
Regrets and apologises for a misunderstanding regarding Horace’s leaving Clapham School. Is sure he wrote an earlier letter which AW evidently did not receive.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Wrigley |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 42–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6004 |
From W. E. Darwin [15 April 1868]
Summary
Gives details of the subjects on whom Langstaff made his observations on crying. Langstaff has not seen the platysma contract under chloroform.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6122 |
From Alfred Wrigley 9 March 1868
Summary
Wants to know why Horace has been removed from school without any notification.
| Author: | Alfred Wrigley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5999 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 June [1868]
Summary
Thanks for name of grass.
Plans to go to Isle of Wight on 17 July.
Frank cannot come to Kew, as he will be reading this long vacation at Cambridge.
Delighted with Bentham’s Presidential Address [Linnean Society, 1868].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 June [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 74–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6259 |
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