To H. E. Dresser [10 September 1875]
Summary
Hopes to meet Dresser and his guest, N. A. Severtsov, on returning to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Eeles Dresser |
| Date: | [10 Sept 1875] |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13836F |
From N. A. Severtsov 25 September [1875]
Summary
Sends CD the 2d part of his travels into the Tien-shan mountains [Erforschung des Thian-Schan Gebirgs-Systems (1875)].
Has written a paper on the ranges and systematics of wild sheep and on modifications probably resulting from competition with domestic sheep, which he wishes to translate into English and would like to see appended to Variation.
Discusses sexual selection in thrushes; it apparently modifies one species into another.
| Author: | Nikolai Alekseevich Severtsov |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10172 |
From M. C. Stanley 14 September 1875
Summary
Thanks CD for telling her "such exact truth". She saw Thomas Carlyle at Keston – the country air has done him good – "he is half sorry to have been so unsociable on his first arrival".
| Author: | Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10157 |
To G. H. Darwin 13 September [1875]
Summary
Sends comments and suggestions for Huth’s experiment on crossbreeding rabbits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
| Sackville-West, M. C. | (1) |
| Severtsov, N. A. | (1) |
| Stanley, M. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Dresser, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Dresser, H. E. | (1) |
| Gascoyne-Cecil, M. C. | (1) |
| Sackville-West, M. C. | (1) |
| 1875 | (4) |
