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To W. B. Tegetmeier   16 October [1866]

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Hopes to begin printing Variation at the beginning of next year.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  16 Oct [1866]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5244

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  • John Murray and Luke Wells (see letter from W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 15 October 1866  and nn.  1 and 2). The reference is to Variation , which was published in January 1868 ( …

From W. B. Tegetmeier   [before 15 February 1868]

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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

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  • … s publisher, John Murray . See letter to W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 11 February [1868] and n.  4. …

To W. B. Tegetmeier   15 February [1868]

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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

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  • B.  Tegetmeier, 11 February [1868] . On the sales and second printing of Variation , see the letter from John Murray, …

From John Murray    18 September [1868]

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JM will send another copy of Variation to B. D. Walsh.

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Sept [1868]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 360
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6376

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  • Murray, 16 September [1868] . CD had told Benjamin Dann Walsh in January that he had asked his publisher, John Murray , to send a copy of Variation through the firm of Baillière brothers in New York (see letter to B.  D.  Walsh, 27 January [1868] ). …

To B. D. Walsh   21 September 1868

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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

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  • Murray, 16 September [1868] , and letter from John Murray, 18 September [1868] . CD refers to a work by Samuel Hubbard Scudder on the stridulating organs of Orthoptera ( Scudder 1867 ; see letter from B.   …

From S. P. Woodward   14 February 1863

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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

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  • … Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. Woodward, Horace B. 1881. A memoir of Dr S. P. …

To Ernest Edwards    4 September 1872

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Testimonial letter stating how valuable CD found their advice and information.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernest Edwards
Date:  4 Sept 1872
Classmark:  DAR 96: 148–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8511

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  • John Murray. 1872. Kirby, Kent B. 1988. Studio collotype: continuous tone printing for the artist, printmaker and photographer. Dalton, Mass. : Heliochrome Press. Moore, John. 2005. Celebration of innovation: a history of autotype 1868– …