To Charles Lyell 20 March [1869]
Summary
Discusses views of Wallace, H. N. Moseley, and Croll on the mechanics of glacier movement.
Comments on Wallace’s new book [The Malay Archipelago (1869)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.367) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6672 |
To Julius Dub 20 March 1869
Summary
CD will supply the sheets of the new edition of the Origin [5th ed. (1869)] if JD goes ahead with his work [Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s über die Entstehung der Arten der Organismen (1870)]. Has no objection to JD’s quoting him, but wonders whether the German publisher of Origin might not feel injured.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Christoph Julius (Julius) Dub |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 62, 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6673 |
To John Dean Caton 20 March 1869
Summary
Asks about coat colour of elk,
the mane of American bison,
and about sexual preferences of female deer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Dean Caton |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6674 |
From Samuel Owen Glenie 20 March 1869
Summary
His observations of the chickens hatched from eggs of an isolated pair of pure-bred black-boned fowl. Nine were black-boned, two were like ordinary fowl.
Quotes a Mr Holdsworth on unusual expressions of Singhalese and Tamils in pointing and beckoning.
| Author: | Samuel Owen Glenie |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6675 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Glenie, S. O. | (1) |
| Caton, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Dub, Julius | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Caton, J. D. | (1) |
| Dub, Julius | (1) |
| Glenie, S. O. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
