To Henry Michael Jenkins [after 1 October 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Michael Jenkins |
Date: | [after 1 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6402 |
To A. R. Wallace 6 October [1868]
Summary
Sexual selection, protection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 6 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 162–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6412 |
To John Tyndall 7 October 1868
Summary
Asks JT to distribute some circulars about the work of Gustavus Hinrichs of Iowa, whom CD wishes to help.
Admires JT’s Norwich address [to Mathematics and Physics Section, BAAS meeting, Rep. BAAS 38: 1–6] and his Fortnightly Review paper on scientific discovery [7 (1867): 645–60].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 7 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 5 (EH: 88205943) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6413 |
To Hermann Müller 9 October 1868
Summary
Pleased HM says good words for Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 9 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 431 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6415 |
To Adam Sedgwick 13 October 1868
Summary
Thanks AS for congratulations on George Darwin’s Trinity fellowship.
Reminiscence of his geological tour of North Wales with AS and the encouraging messages received during the Beagle voyage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 13 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | Mrs Romney Sedgwick (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6418 |
To J. J. Weir 17 October 1868
Summary
Enjoyed JJW’s visit.
Interested in changes in plumage of pheasants.
Still at work on sexual selection in birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 17 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 320 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6422 |
To John Tyndall 20 October 1868
Summary
Invites JT to come to Down with the Asa Grays and Hookers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 20 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 6 (EH: 88205944) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6424 |
To W. D. Fox 21 October [1868]
Summary
Reminds WDF to write about the "great magpie marriage". Sexual selection an "everlasting subject".
News of his children.
Asks for information on instances of sexual preference in animals and data on numbers of males and females born in various domesticated species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 21 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 149); DAR 266 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6426 |
To August Weismann 22 October 1868
Summary
Fears copy of AW’s publication [Über die Berechtigung der Darwin’schen Theorie (1868)] lost in mail. Asks for another.
Glad AW approves of his work
and objects to Nägeli’s law of perfection.
Thinks Moritz Wagner overrates necessity for emigration and isolation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
Date: | 22 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 341 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6427 |
To Karl von Scherzer 25 October 1868
Summary
Thanks KvS for information about expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl von Scherzer |
Date: | 25 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.356) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6429 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 26 October [1868]
Summary
Encloses Queries about expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 26 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.335) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6431 |
To B. D. Walsh 31 October 1868
Summary
Thanks BDW for extracts about "drumming" [of male Cicada to attract females].
Asa Gray and Hooker doubt that 13–year and 17–year Cicada forms should be considered distinct species. CD is inclined to agree with them.
Suggests observations be made of ratio of females to males in the rarer form.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 31 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6437 |
To Sven Nilsson 31 October [1868]
Summary
Thanks SN for the reference about the reindeer, received via Hooker.
CD wishes to ascertain whether there is any relation between the period of development of a character and its transmission to one sex alone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Sven Nilsson |
Date: | 31 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | Lund University Library Special Collections (Sven Nilsson papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6438 |
To T. H. Farrer 29 October [1868]
Summary
Suggests THF write a paper on violets. Asa Gray, once a sceptic, now declares he is convinced whole structure of a flower is adapted for a cross with another individual.
Urges THF not to give up Pangenesis lightly. "It has thrown light on my mind in regard [to] a great series of complex phenomena."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 29 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6435 |
Tyndall, John | (2) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Jenkins, H. M. | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Tyndall, John | (2) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Jenkins, H. M. | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Nilsson, Sven | (1) |
Scherzer, Karl von | (1) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
Weir, J. J. | (1) |
Weismann, August | (1) |