From J. J. Weir [before 17] October 1868
Summary
Both sexes of Crossoptilon auritum (eared pheasant) obtained the red cheeks the first year.
Coloration of the linnet.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 17] Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A36, 53; DAR 84.1: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6421 |
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 |
From W. S. Dallas 19 October 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for his promise of support and his flattering opinion of his qualifications for the position of Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6423 |
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 |
From Karl von Scherzer 20 October 1868
Summary
Describes departure of expedition to China, Japan, and South America.
Copy of CD’s queries provided to expedition.
Invites CD to make suggestions for scientific work to be carried out.
Author: | Karl von Scherzer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6425 |
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 |
From J. P. M. Weale 23 October 1868
Summary
Describes Lappago aleina, a species of South African grass,
and reports his observations on locusts and their feeding habits.
Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 93a–94a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6428 |
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 |
From John Price 28 October 1868
Summary
Congratulates CD on success at Cambridge [of George Darwin].
Would like CD to study the anomalous Cardamine pratensis.
Author: | John Price |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6434 |
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 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 |
From Fritz Müller 31 October 1868
Summary
Writes on various observations and discoveries on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 98, 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6439 |
From J. D. Caton 2 [October] 1868
Summary
Observations on lateral spots on coats of two specimens of deer. PS on habits of wild and domestic turkeys.
Author: | John Dean Caton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 [Oct] 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 167–9, DAR 161: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6488 |
From G. R. Crotch [after 5 October 1868]
Author: | George Robert Crotch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 5 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6529 |
From G. R. Crotch [after 16 October 1868]
Author: | George Robert Crotch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 16 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6530 |
From Asa Gray 11 October [1868]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6931 |
From T. H. Farrer 26 October 1868
Summary
Delighted with mechanisms of Salvia and Viola. How can anyone who compares structure of Viola cornuta and common violet still suppose them to be separate creations?
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6432 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Crotch, G. R. | (3) |
Blyth, Edward | (2) |
Dallas, W. S. | (2) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Tyndall, John | (2) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Jenkins, H. M. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
Crotch, G. R. | (3) |
Tyndall, John | (3) |
Blyth, Edward | (2) |
Dallas, W. S. | (2) |