From W. D. Fox [before 14 May 1868]
Summary
Pairing habits of birds: polygamy among ducks and canaries.
Information on the proportion of sexes in fowls and other birds.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 14 May 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5762 |
From W. D. Fox 3 February [1868]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5837 |
To W. D. Fox 6 February [1868]
Summary
There is so much detail in Variation that WDF will never be able to finish it. Some chapters, like that on reversion, are "curious".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 6 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 148) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5842 |
To W. D. Fox 25 February [1868]
Summary
Is working on "Sexual selection"; asks WDF to send observations on birds’ finding new mates during breeding season [see Descent 2: 103–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 25 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 148a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5929 |
To W. D. Fox 14 May [1868]
Summary
WDF’s letter gives CD the kind of facts he wants. His story about peacocks is so good that CD will quote it [Descent 2: 46].
Pleased WDF approves of his book [Variation]
– "beloved Pangenesis disagrees badly with many".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 14 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 148b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6172 |
From W. D. Fox 19 May [1868]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6187 |
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 |
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 |
To W. D. Fox 4 November 1868
Summary
Much interested in WDF’s letter on inheritance and courtship of birds. CD "in a great muddle" on many points.
Asks for further information on proportion of sexes in sheep.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 4 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 150) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6447 |
From W. D. Fox 9 December [1868]
Summary
Hybrid geese.
Proportions of sexes in sheep and cattle.
Pairing habits of crows.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 126–7, DAR 85: B36–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6455 |
To W. D. Fox 12 December [1868]
Summary
Thanks WDF for information about sheep and cattle.
Mentions corrections for new edition of Origin [5th ed. (1869)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 12 Dec [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.357) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6500 |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Fox, W. D. | (5) |
Fox, W. D. | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Fox, W. D. |