To Virginius Dabney 3 November 1873
Summary
Thanks VD for information on caterpillars selecting food plants from within one family,
and on similar behaviour in hogs, which will not eat any plants from a family containing some poisonous members.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Virginius Dabney |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 56 MSS 3082-a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9128 |
From Virginius Dabney 18 October 1873
Summary
Feeding habits of the tobacco worm; it eats only five plants, all very different, but of same botanical family.
| Author: | Virginius Dabney |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9099 |
From S. V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell 19 September 1873
Summary
Thanks for proofs of the Supplement to Crag Mollusca. Sends crab apples.
| Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1873 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6327-9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059G |
Matches: 1 hit
- … wool, as the devil said when he sheared the hogs’: much palaver and little result. Charles …
From Charles Hinton 15 June 1873
Summary
Observations on expression.
| Author: | Charles Hinton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8944 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … be made with this device. You speak of hogs and several other animals killing poisonous …
| letter | (4) |
| Dabney, Virginius | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hinton, Charles | (1) |
| Wood, S. V. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Dabney, Virginius | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Dabney, Virginius | (2) |
| Hinton, Charles | (1) |
| Wood, S. V. | (1) |
Correlation of growth: deaf blue-eyed cats, pigs, and poison
Summary
As he was first developing his ideas, among the potential problems Darwin recognised with natural selection was how to account for developmental change that conferred no apparent advantage. He proposed a ‘mysterious law’ of ‘correlation of growth’ where…
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- … ed. p. 12). ‘I have been the more glad to get your Hog case,’ Darwin confided to Wyman, ‘as I …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
