To Fritz Müller 22 February [1867]
Summary
Observations on orchid self-sterility.
Wants information on characters that may have originated through sexual selection in lower animals.
Encloses queries on expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5410 |
To the Linnean Society 22 February [1867]
Summary
Sends J. P. M. Weale’s paper on Bonatea for consideration by Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 470–6].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Linnean Society |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP.1249) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5411 |
To King’s College, London 22 February [1867]
Summary
Asks for information concerning study at King’s College.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | King’s College London |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | King’s College London Archives (KA/IC/D45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5412 |
To Edward Blyth 23 February [1867]
Summary
Many of EB’s remarks about Origin [4th ed. (1866)] are new to CD.
Thinks of writing a short essay on man.
Struck by EB’s remarks about orang. They are similar to Carl Vogt’s remarks on origin of man from distinct ape families.
Thinks similarity of orang to Malay must be accidental.
Will send Variation when it is published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5413 |
To Paul Rohrbach 23 February [1867]
Summary
Thanks PR for his memoir on Epipogium ["Über den Blüthenbau von Epipogium" (1866)]. The structure and manner of fertilisation are new to CD;
he has long suspected that the classification of orchids requires considerable modification.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Paul Rohrbach |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 228–229 ) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5414 |
To Alfred Russel Wallace 23 February 1867
Summary
Asks why caterpillars are sometimes beautifully coloured. It poses a problem for view that sexual selection is the explanation of colours of male butterflies.
More on mimetic butterflies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | Marchant ed. 1916, 1: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5415 |
From A. R. Wallace 24 February [1867]
Summary
Protective role of colours in caterpillars and butterflies. Sexual differences in colours of butterflies.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A19–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5416 |
From Edward Blyth 24 February 1867
Summary
Discusses sexual and seasonal differences in the plumage of birds and coats of mammals.
Remarks upon variations in the form of the canine tooth between the sexes in mammalian groups.
Plumage of allied species of plover.
Asks CD’s help with work on unimproved domestic animals.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 34, 150–1, DAR 84.1: 26–7, 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5418 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh [25 February 1867]
Summary
Sends a copy [missing] of a lecture by L. Agassiz on glaciers.
Claims worker wasps can generate additional workers in the absence of the fertile female.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Feb 1867] |
| Classmark: | Darwin Library–CUL (bound with Siebold 1857), ML 1: 248–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5419 |
To A. R. Wallace 26 February [1867]
Summary
ARW’s explanation of protective value of conspicuous coloration is ingenious.
CD still holds to sexual selection with respect to beauty in male butterflies.
Sexual selection and the races of man.
Expression of emotions is another subject he plans to include in his essay [Descent].
Asks ARW to suggest an observer in Malay Archipelago to whom he might send queries [on expression].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 26 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5420 |
From Trübner & Co 26 February 1867
Summary
Vladimir Kovalevsky wishes to translate Variation into Russian. He offers £1 per advance sheet.
| Author: | Trübner & Co. |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5421 |
To J. P. M. Weale 27 February [1867]
Summary
Encloses his queries about expression which he asks JPMW to forward to trustworthy observers who associate with Hottentots and Kaffirs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Date: | 27 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5422 |
To Julius von Haast 27 February [1867]
Summary
Asks JvH’s assistance in making observations on the expression of emotions. Encloses 17 queries that are being sent to various parts of the world.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Date: | 27 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5423 |
To Robert Swinhoe [27 February 1867]
Summary
CD’s queries on expression as reprinted in Notes and Queries on China and Japan 1 (1867): 105.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Date: | [27 Feb 1867] |
| Classmark: | Notes and Queries on China and Japan 1 (1867): 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5423F |
To Ferdinand von Mueller 28 February [1867]
Summary
Sends his [MS] questionnaire on expression and asks FvM’s help in obtaining answers based on observations of aborigines living in the interior of Australia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A33–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5424 |
From Edward Blyth [after 24 February 1867]
Summary
Sexual differences in bird species and seasonal variation in plumage.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 24 Feb 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 105–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6403 |
From Mary Elizabeth Barber [after February 1867]
Summary
Replies to Queries on expression based on observations of the Kaffir and Fingoe tribes in South Africa.
| Author: | Mary Elizabeth Bowker; Mary Elizabeth Barber |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Feb 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5745 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
| Blyth, Edward | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Barber, M. E. | (1) |
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Blyth, Edward | (3) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Turner, William | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
| Blyth, Edward | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Müller, Fritz | (3) |
| Turner, William | (3) |
