To W. D. Fox 25 February [1868]
Summary
Is working on "Sexual selection"; asks WDF to send observations on birds’ finding new mates during breeding season [see Descent 2: 103–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 148a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5929 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 25 February [1868]
Summary
Will forward LR’s memoir to Earl of Tankerville. Has sent LR’s pamphlet on "Darwin Lehre" [Die Grenzen der Thierwelt (1868)] to a German lady he employs as a translator. Cannot agree that there is an innate principle of perfection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5930 |
To John Murray 25 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks JM for presentation copies [of Variation]. Sends directions and list.
Has been told positively that hostile review in Athenæum was by Berthold Seemann, to whom he once refused a testimonial.
On the whole, reviews have been very good.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 182–183) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5931 |
To Robert Caspary 25 February [1868]
Summary
Will send English edition [of Variation] when available.
Mentions revisions in second issue concerning graft-hybrids.
Asks for Euryale seed for experiment.
Discusses fertility of crossed and self-fertilised plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5932 |
To Henry Lee 25 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for results on sexes of trout. [See 5793.] CD is collecting information about the proportional numbers of sexes in animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Lee |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Walter R. Benjamin Autographs (dealer) (May 1988) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5934A |
To Robert McLachlan 25 February [1868]
Summary
Is obliged for the facts about the hybrids [see 5910], which permit him to reject the view of B. D. Walsh (and H. W. Bates?) that organs play an important part in keeping incipient species distinct.
He has asked John Murray to send RM a copy of Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert McLachlan |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5934B |
| letter | (6) |
| Caspary, Robert | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Lee, Henry | (1) |
| McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Caspary, Robert | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Lee, Henry | (1) |
| McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Rütimeyer, Ludwig | (1) |
