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From John Lubbock 12 February [1868]
Summary
Discusses [Fritz?] Müller’s confusion about ova and pseudova; JL’s Daphnia paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100; see 1979] first demonstrated their structural identity.
Points out a misleading statement in Variation.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5868 |
From John Murray 12 February [1868]
Summary
CD’s letter encourages Murray to proceed with a new edition of Variation; corrections will cost £176.
First notice has appeared in Pall Mall Gazette [7 (1868): 555].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171 : 355 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5869 |
From Charles Owen Waterhouse 12 February 1868
Summary
On blind beetles [see Descent 1: 367].
Development of mandibles in Brentus.
| Author: | Charles Owen Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A74–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5870 |
From John Blackwall 12 February 1868
Summary
Variability of sizes and colours in spiders; on proportion of sexes; courtship of spiders.
| Author: | John Blackwall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A78–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5871 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Blackwall, John | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Waterhouse, C. O. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Blackwall, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Waterhouse, C. O. | (1) |
