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From C. S. Bate [17 February 1868]
Summary
On the proportion of sexes in crabs; coloration and structural differences.
| Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A61–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5826 |
From James Shaw 17 February 1868
Summary
Mentions review [of Variation] in the Athenæum [15 Feb 1868, pp. 243–4].
Comments on adaptive utility of the right hand, an organ still undergoing specialisation.
| Author: | James Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5884 |
From J. E. Gray 17 February 1868
Summary
JEG’s paper on pigs is being printed [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1868): 17–49].
Colouring in horses.
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5886 |
From George Brettingham Sowerby 17 February 1868
Summary
Sends data from J. G. Jeffreys on the form of shells of the sexes of Mollusca. [See Descent 1: 324, 326.]
| Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A55–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5887 |
From William Farr 17 February 1868
Summary
Will gladly supply any information he can. Sends Registrar General’s reports; will inquire about the animals.
| Author: | William Farr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5888 |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Farr, William | (1) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Shaw, James | (1) |
| Sowerby, G. B., Jr | (1) |
Correspondent
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Farr, William | (1) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Shaw, James | (1) |
| Sowerby, G. B., Jr | (1) |
