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 |
To B. D. Walsh 17 February [1868]
Summary
Has looked through BDW’s papers and finds heaps of facts on sexual differences. Asks questions on sexual differences in particular species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 12A) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5883 |
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 |
To J. E. Gray 17 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
CD will call on JEG to hear his views on specific differences of pigs.
Does not know who has "cut me up so severely" in the Athenæum but suspects "your great man in the Museum" [Richard Owen].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 234) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5885 |
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 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Farr, William | (1) |
| Gray, J. E. | (2) |
| Shaw, James | (1) |
| Sowerby, G. B., Jr | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
