From W. D. Fox 29 October [1868]
Summary
Thanks CD for a recent letter.
Reports on his health, which has been bad for 12 months.
Sends extracts of works on domestication.
Discusses the pairing of various birds; comments on the pugnacity of partridges, pheasants, male guinea-fowl, and peacocks.
Gives proportions of sexes in pheasants.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Oct [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 189; DAR 193: 112; DAR 83: 187, DAR 84.1: 128–30, DAR 86: A87–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6436 |
From Fritz Müller 31 October 1868
Summary
Writes on various observations and discoveries on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 142: 98, 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6439 |
From J. D. Caton 2 [October] 1868
Summary
Observations on lateral spots on coats of two specimens of deer. PS on habits of wild and domestic turkeys.
| Author: | John Dean Caton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 [Oct] 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 167–9, DAR 161: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6488 |
From G. R. Crotch [after 5 October 1868]
Summary
Note identifying insects and remarking on stridulation.
| Author: | George Robert Crotch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 5 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 81: 173 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6529 |
From G. R. Crotch [after 16 October 1868]
Summary
Lists stridulating organs of various Coleoptera.
| Author: | George Robert Crotch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 16 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 81: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6530 |
From Asa Gray 11 October [1868]
Summary
Wants seeds of Passiflora gracilis.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6931 |
From T. H. Farrer 26 October 1868
Summary
Delighted with mechanisms of Salvia and Viola. How can anyone who compares structure of Viola cornuta and common violet still suppose them to be separate creations?
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6432 |
| letter | (27) |
| Crotch, G. R. | (3) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (2) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Büchner, Ludwig | (1) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
| Büchner, Ludwig | (1) |
| Caton, J. D. | (1) |
| Crotch, G. R. | (3) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Plimsoll, Joseph | (1) |
| Price, John | (1) |
| Scherzer, Karl von | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
| Weale, J. P. M. | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
| Wilson, Edward | (1) |
