From G. H. Darwin [27] March [1868]
Summary
Discusses law versus engineering and business as a career.
Supposes ARW will have "squashed" GHD’s criticisms of his notes on sterility.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27] Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6047 |
To A. R. Wallace 27 March [1868]
Summary
There are so many doubtful points on the problems relating to sterility that they will never agree.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 123–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6058 |
To J. J. Weir 27 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks for information [about sex ratios] received from bird-catchers.
"Can you form any theory about all the many cases which you have given me and others which have been published, of when one pair is killed, another soon appearing?"
Facts about gay-coloured caterpillars very satisfactory.
Comments on Pangenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6059 |
To Roland Trimen 27 March [1868]
Summary
Thanks RT for letter which saves him from a "terrible mistake": that no moths were more brilliantly coloured beneath than above. Suggests revised version for comment. [See Descent 1: 397.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A119–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6060 |
From Roland Trimen 27 March 1868
Summary
Approves CD’s revision on coloration of moths.
Impressed with apparent adverse tendencies: one toward sexual selection, the other toward protection.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A120v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6061 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Trimen, Roland | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
