From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 15 February 1868]
Summary
Agrees to help determine the sex ratios in domestic animals.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 15 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5878 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 February [1868]
Summary
Is much obliged that WBT will undertake tabulation of sex ratios in racehorses, greyhounds, and cattle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5879 |
To A. R. Wallace 24 March [1871]
Summary
On the flourishing sales of their respective books. Mentions reviews of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871] and in the Spectator [11 Mar 1871, pp. 288–9; 18 Mar 1871, pp. 319–20].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 24 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7616 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray, 22 March 1871 ). CD refers to Philip Brookes Mason . See letter to P. B. Mason, 24 March [1871] and n. 1. The last extant letter from Wallace is that of [15 March 1871]; CD had already acknowledged it ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 16 March 1871 ). CD refers to the second part of [Morley] 1871a, which appeared on 21 March 1871, and to a review in the Spectator , 11 …
To T. H. Huxley 7 January [1867]
Summary
Gives up plan to have Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie translated.
His big book [Variation] has gone to printer. Thinks of adding a chapter on man.
Will order Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
"Nature never made species mutually sterile [by selection]; nor will man.–"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1867] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 233) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5348 |
From Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen 2 March 1871
Summary
Dutch translation [of Descent].
Notes about reversion.
Hermaphroditism in fishes.
Polydactylism.
| Author: | Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 90: 21–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7533 |
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- … John Murray. 1871. Dorland’s medical dictionary : Dorland’s illustrated medical dictionary. By William Alexander Newman Dorland. 30th edition. Philadelphia, Pa. : W. B. Saunders. 2003. EB : The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11. …
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen, Hermanus | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
