From George Cupples 22 March 1869
Summary
Will look for sex ratio statistics.
Will weigh pups.
Deerhound breeding;
wolves.
| Author: | George Cupples |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 291 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6679 |
From Harrison William Weir 23 March 1869
Summary
Proportion of sexes in pigeons, pigs, and pheasants.
Sexual preferences of females.
| Author: | Harrison William Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 86: C10, DAR 84.1: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6680 |
From A. R. Wallace 24 March 1869
Summary
Comments on Fritz Müller’s book [Facts and arguments for Darwin].
Responds to CD’s corrections of his work [Malay Archipelago].
Plumage of birds of paradise.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 112–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6681 |
From Martin Wilckens 25 March 1869
Summary
Sends two of his publications ["Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Fortschritte der Thierzucht", Jahrb. Landwirtsch. (1869) and "Die Aufgaben der landwirtschaftlicher Biotechnik", Landwirtsch. Wochenbl. (1869)].
| Author: | Martin Wilckens |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 67v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6682 |
To Martin Wilckens [after 25 March 1869]
Summary
Thanks MW for two publications [see 6682].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Martin Wilckens |
| Date: | [after 25 Mar 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 67r |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6683 |
To A. R. Wallace 27 March [1869]
Summary
Hopes ARW has not "murdered too completely your own and my child" [natural selection] in his Quarterly Review article ["Sir Charles Lyell on geological climates and the Origin", 126 (1869): 359–94] on Lyell’s Principles [10th ed.].
CD is attributing more significance to useless variability in new [5th] edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6684 |
From Armand de Quatrefages 29 March 1869
Summary
Comments on their differences regarding evolution. Acknowledges that CD alone has produced an evolutionary theory that is scientific and all-embracing. Appreciates grandeur of CD’s work.
| Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 175: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6686 |
To W. T. Preyer 29 March 1869
Summary
Congratulates WP on the success of his lectures.
Discusses the phrase "struggle for existence".
Sends a list of his papers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 254–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6687 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 March [1869]
Summary
Interested in Barkly’s letter about Mauritius. Doubts non-volcanic origin. Urges collection of all forms of terrestrial life to determine whether they are of a former continent or "waifs and strays". He leans to latter view, as snakes and reptiles are different.
Huxley’s address wonderfully "brilliant", but it is a mistake to separate evolutionists from uniformitarians.
Bentham has come out "splendidly" on descent of species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 121–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6688 |
To C. F. Claus 31 March 1869
Summary
Williams and Norgate inform CD that they dispatched the small parcel to Leipzig on 23 February. CD fears it may not be worth the trouble to CC.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 208–209) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6689 |
To Charles Lyell 5 March [1869]
Summary
Discusses wear and tear due to glaciation and significance of this evidence for dating the glacial period. Mentions views of James Croll and Archibald Geikie on the issue.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.364) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6692 |
From R. F. Cooke 10 March 1869
Summary
Sends statement [missing] of cost and proceeds of publishing Facts and arguments for Darwin at 6s. Asks whether CD agrees to this price.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 366 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6653 |
From R. F. Cooke 12 March 1869
Summary
Book [Facts and arguments for Darwin] is being bound; it is probably too late to alter lettering.
| Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 367 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6659 |
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| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Cupples, George | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| John Murray | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Cupples, George | (3) |
| Müller, Fritz | (3) |
| Preyer, William | (3) |
| Tait, W. C. | (3) |
| Claus, C. F. | (2) |
| Cooke, R. F. | (2) |
| Eyton, T. C. | (2) |
| John Murray | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (2) |
| Stebbing, T. R. R. | (2) |
| Wilckens, Martin | (2) |
| Bate, C. S. | (1) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Caton, J. D. | (1) |
| Dub, Julius | (1) |
| Faivre, Ernest | (1) |
| Glenie, S. O. | (1) |
| Landor, Henry | (1) |
| Lushington, Vernon | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Recht, Georg | (1) |
| Rérolle, Louis | (1) |
| Seidlitz, Karl von | (1) |
| Weir, H. W. | (1) |
