To J. J. Weir 1 September 1868
Summary
Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 1 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 319 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6343 |
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 J. J. Weir [before 18 May 1868]
Summary
CD cannot remember whether correspondent believed the wing that Gallus bankiva opens and scrapes before the female, is ornamented. He fears it is not.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | [before 18 May 1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6537 |
To J. J. Weir 13 May [1869]
Summary
Comments on paper by JJW ["On insects and insectivorous birds", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1869): 21–6]. JJW’s verification of A. R. Wallace’s suggestion regarding inheritance is quite a discovery.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 13 May [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6746 |
To J. J. Weir 20 May [1869]
Summary
Asks for information about male birds migrating before females.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 20 May [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 322 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6753 |
To J. J. Weir 27 May [1869]
Summary
Thanks for information about bird migration.
Comments on canary hybridisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 27 May [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 323 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6759 |
To J. J. Weir 1 July [1869]
Summary
"My health got so bad I could do nothing at Down".
Gives information about migration of male and female birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 1 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 324 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6810 |
To J. J. Weir 17 March [1870]
Summary
CD thinks JJW’s account [in 7137] is significant for a theory of generation and should go to some scientific society; suggests additional data is needed. Quotes cases of subsequent progeny apparently affected by a previous impregnation. Perhaps not prudent to allude to "despised" Pangenesis, which CD fully believes will have its day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 17 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7138 |
To J. J. Weir 14 June [1870]
Summary
Asks about birds erecting feathers when enraged or frightened. Interested in examples of expression in birds and animals.
Tells of the sheldrake dancing on tidal sands to make worms come out.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 14 June [1870] |
Classmark: | University of Redlands, Armacost Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7231 |
To J. J. Weir 29 June [1870]
Summary
On birds erecting feathers.
Comments on production of buds in Cytisus.
Discusses case of rabbit-breeding which affected subsequent progeny of female.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 29 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7253 |
To J. J. Weir 16 October 1871
Summary
Cannot accept JJW’s invitation to a party. His health has been worse than usual for some months – can see no one nor can he go anywhere.
Is preparing a cheap edition of the Origin [6th] and will answer Mivart’s objections.
CD is pleased JJW likes C. Wright’s "Darwinism" [see 7940]. Huxley will publish a splendid review of it in Contemporary Review [Nov 1871].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 16 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1349) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8013 |
To J. J. Weir 19 October 1871
Summary
"Like you I have often wondered at the different food of the old and young, as with graminivorous birds feeding their young with insects."
Recommends forthcoming book by John Lubbock [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 19 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8018 |
To J. J. Weir 30 April [1872]
Summary
Not surprised incipient disease in female would make her unattractive to male.
Sorry JJW’s official duties are so heavy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 30 Apr [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8303 |
To J. J. Weir 31 July [1872]
Summary
Thanks for new case.
Not very well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 31 July [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 330 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8441 |
To J. J. Weir 18 September [1873]
Summary
JJW is quite at liberty to use CD’s name as patron of cat show.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 18 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (B MS Misc.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8524 |
To J. J. Weir 22 May 1873
Summary
Has no doubt he will find JJW’s address interesting.
Thinks same spot for nesting might prove attractive to birds, though they had had no intercommunication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 22 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8919 |
To J. J. Weir 1 May 1875
Summary
August Weismann is interested in JJW’s experiments on birds and the caterpillars they eat.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 1 May 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.468) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9962 |
From J. J. Weir 6 July 1875
Summary
Yellow flowers occurring on a purple Cytisus grafted onto a yellow stock.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10044 |
From J. J. Weir 7 July 1875
Summary
Yellow and purple flowers occur on plant grafted with Cytisus purpureus, but only on separate racemes. Only yellow blooms seed.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10050 |
From J. J. Weir 9 July 1875
Summary
Sends CD some of the Cytisus, which has produced yellow flowers on a purple graft.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10055 |
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