To J. D. Hooker [26 March 1868]
Summary
He and Lizzie [Elizabeth Darwin] will come to Kew on Saturday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [26 Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 58–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6052 |
From W. E. Darwin 5 March [1868]
Summary
Crying in babies.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5981 |
To Horace Darwin 26 [July 1868]
Summary
Writes to express his pleasure at Leonard’s success [second in the Woolwich Academy entrance examination].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | 26 [July 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6289 |
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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 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 [March 1868]
Summary
Asks WED to observe a suppressed yawn.
Asks whether scratching a tickling point makes tears come to his eyes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 22 [Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A23) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8396 |
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 |
To J. J. Weir 1 September 1868
Summary
Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 1 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 319 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6343 |
From T. H. Farrer 4 June 1868
Summary
Describes work with pollinia of another Orchis species.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6229 |
From W. E. Darwin [5 and 8? April 1868]
Summary
Langstaff has seen no trace of blushing on the body.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 and 8 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 81; Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6149 |
To J. V. Carus 16 August [1868]
Summary
Regrets having missed JVC’s visit. CD’s health is poor. He hopes JVC will come to Down after BAAS meeting.
Has heard second part [of Variation] is out in German. Thanks JVC for his great care in making translation accurate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1868] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 25–26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6317 |
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 |
From Edward Cresy 27 January 1868
Summary
Congratulations on George’s being Second Wrangler at Cambridge.
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 250 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5806 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 November [1868]
Summary
CD thought Watson’s article beastly in its criticisms of JDH. Watson’s criticism of CD was not new or important, but fair, so CD could honestly thank him, adding his regret at what was said about JDH.
Is sitting for Woolner bust.
Has read James Croll on alternation of glacial and warmer periods in north and south, which would remove JDH’s objections to cool period extending to equator.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 98–101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6476 |
From J. B. Innes 13 June 1868
Summary
Writes about difficulties in which S. J. O. Horsman, curate at Down, has involved himself and others. Horsman has said he would resign. JBI offers to give up his interests in the living at Down.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6241 |
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 V. O. Kovalevsky 22 December 1868
Summary
The first half of vol. 2 of Variation is printed.
News of his marriage.
Sends portraits of Russian scientists.
Hopes CD will write his book on man and asks permission to translate it.
Moving to Germany for two or three years.
| Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6510 |
To A. R. Wallace 19 August [1868]
Summary
The problem of dimorphic plants and their fertility.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 19 Aug [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 143–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6322 |
To John Bush 29 February [1868]
Summary
Writes at Frank Buckland’s suggestion. Can JB provide any information on the proportion of sexes in rats?
Do male rats fight for the possession of the female? Are they polygamous?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Bush |
| Date: | 29 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Private collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5961 |
To A. R. Wallace 17 [March 1868]
Summary
On his Primula paper for the Linnean Society ["On the specific difference between Primula veris, Brit. Fl. (var. officialis, Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. var. acaulis, Linn.), and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the hybrid nature of the common oxlip; with supplementary remarks on naturally produced hybrids of the genus Verbascum", [officinalis!?] J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].
Peacocks and sexual selection.
ARW’s sterility argument has driven CD’s sons half-mad.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 17 [Mar 1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 43434: 115–17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6018 |
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