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 |
From J. J. Weir 4 July 1870
Summary
On mutations in rabbits.
Cytisus case is not a double graft.
Aggressive behaviour of birds of prey.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7264 |
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 |
From J. J. Weir 31 July 1872
Summary
On variegated leaves; a feature not inherited consistently.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 July 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8440 |
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 |
From J. J. Weir 14 August 1872
Summary
Hostility of birds toward others with same colour;
nuptial plumage.
Spiza cyanea and Spiza ciris.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 177–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8470 |
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 |
From J. J. Weir 13 November 1873
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 179–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9139 |
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 |
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