To August Weismann 13 November 1876
Summary
Thanks for present of Studien [zur Descendenz-Theorie, vol. 2 (1876)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
Date: | 13 Nov 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 347 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10670 |
Weismann, August. 1876. Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie. II. Über die letzten Ursachen der Transmutationen. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
To August Weismann [17 June 1876 or later]
Summary
Comments on Weismann’s remarks on the possibility of sexual selection in the genus Daphnia.
A. R. Wallace has published paper giving up sexual selection [Review of St George Jackson Mivart’s Lessons from nature, as manifested in mind and matter.] in Academy, 10 and 17 June 1876, pp. 587–8.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
Date: | [17 June 1876 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 346 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10335 |
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- … To August Weismann [17 June 1876 or later] …
- … Robert Darwin Down [17 June 1876 or later] Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann …
- … London: Garland Publishing. 1990. Weismann, August. 1876–80. Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte …
- … 1876): 51–112; 28 (1877): 93–254; 30 (suppl. 1878): 123–65; 33 (1880): 55–270. Weismann, August. …
Weismann, August. 1876–80. Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Daphnoiden. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 27 (1876): 51–112; 28 (1877): 93–254; 30 (suppl. 1878): 123–65; 33 (1880): 55–270.
To Raphael Meldola 24 July [1878]
Summary
Does not think the Petunia is anything remarkable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 24 July [1878] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11627 |
To Raphael Meldola 12 June [1878]
Summary
Has received interesting essay from August Weismann on sexual selection in daphnoids [“Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden”, Z. Wiss. Zool. (1878)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 12 June [1878] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11551 |
To August Weismann 10 November 1879
Summary
Thanks for AW’s work ["Zur Naturgeschichte der Daphniden", Z. Wiss. Zool. 27: 51–112; 28: 93–254; 30 (suppl.): 123–65; 33: 55–270]. CD always interested in adaptations which appear to owe their structure to other causes.
Has not heard from Raphael Meldola for a long time about translation of AW’s Studien.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
Date: | 10 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12303 |
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- … Natur. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. Weismann, August. 1876–80. Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte …
- … 1876): 51–112; 28 (1877): 93–254; 30 (suppl. 1878): 123–65; 33 (1880): 55–270. Weismann, August. …
- … Weismann 1875–6 , 1: 14–15 n. 1). By the time the English translation appeared, Weismann’s question had been answered; a Swedish expedition in 1876 to the Yenisei river region of Siberia found that only the early form of the butterfly existed there ( Weismann 1880–2 1: 19–21 n. 15). Meldola was working on a translation of August …
From Raphael Meldola 13 June 1878
Summary
Would like to read Weismann’s essay on Daphnidae.
Fritz Müller’s paper on odours emitted by butterflies was read at last Entomological Society meeting.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11553 |
To Raphael Meldola 31 October [1877]
Summary
Hopes RM finds a publisher [for his translation of Weismann’s Studien].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 31 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11217 |
From Raphael Meldola 20 October 1877
Summary
Would like to see the Kosmos article.
Is considering producing a translation of August Weismann’s essays.
Comments on Wallace’s paper on the colours of animals and plants [Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 384–408, 464–71].
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11192 |
To Raphael Meldola 27 September [1877]
Summary
Does not think Fritz Müller can object to anything RM has said in his essay.
Has alluded to colour preference among butterflies in Descent [1: 400–1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 27 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11154 |
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To A. R. Wallace 31 August 1877
Summary
Response to Wallace’s article ["The colours of animals and plants", Macmillan’s Mag. (Sept 1877)] on sexual colours and "voluntary" sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 31 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11121 |
To August Weismann 12 January 1877
Summary
Comments on AW’s book [Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie (1875–6)], especially on mimicry in caterpillars.
Mentions sets of drawings of British Lepidoptera in all stages. Would AW like to see them?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann |
Date: | 12 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 348 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10784 |
From Raphael Meldola 2 January [1878]
Summary
Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].
Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11308 |
To Raphael Meldola 31 October [1878]
Summary
Will do his best to provide preface for Weismann’s Studien [see Collected papers 2: 280–1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 31 Oct [1878] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11732 |
To Raphael Meldola 22 October [1877]
Summary
Thinks Weismann would welcome a translation.
Was dissatisfied with Wallace’s article.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 22 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11197 |
From Raphael Meldola 30 October 1878
Summary
Plans to produce a translation of Weismann’s Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie [1875–6] and would welcome a preface from CD.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Oct 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11730 |
From Francis Darwin 24 and 25 July 1878
Summary
Notes Julius Sachs’s opinion on the heliotropism of moulds: he can see no use in the response.
C. E. Stahl is working on swarm spores which can be made both helio- and apheliotropic.
Sachs has told him that some ferns sleep, and he suspects that some grasses may move.
Sachs also feels they may be working at bloom from a wrong point of view and suggests leaves may need to keep dry in order to keep their stomata open.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 and 25 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 60, DAR 209.6: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11628 |
From Ernst Krause 22 March 1880
Summary
German edition of Erasmus Darwin delayed because Murray has not sent phototypes and galvanographs.
Two of CD’s articles from Nature to appear in April Kosmos ["Sexual colours in butterflies", Collected papers 2: 220–2, Kosmos 7 (1880): 72–4;
"Fertility of hybrids from the Chinese goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20, Kosmos 7 (1880): 77–8].
Moritz Wagner will begin a series criticising natural selection.
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: B57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12542 |
From Raphael Meldola 11 December 1878
Summary
Is making progress with the Weismann translation.
Wonders whether Francis Darwin would give a botanical lecture at a Bayswater school.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Dec 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11785 |
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- … August Weismann’s essay on seasonal dimorphism in butterflies ( Weismann 1875a ) was the first part of Meldola’s translation, Studies in the theory of descent ( Weismann 1882 , 1: 1–160). Six colour lithographic plates made by the firm J. A. Hofmann, Würzburg, appeared in Weismann 1882 . The term ‘phyletische’ had been coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel (see Haeckel 1866 , 2: 45, 299, and passim) to refer to a genealogical connection between one species and others. It had been translated as ‘phyletic’ by Edwin Ray Lankester in The history of creation ( Haeckel 1876 , …
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