To Edward Wilson 20 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks EW for information [on expression] about Australians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Wilson |
Date: | 20 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5899 |
From William Henty 20 February 1868
Summary
Has read CD’s inquiry about proportional numbers of males and females born to domestic animals [see 5863] and outlines his theory regarding the factors determining the sex of offspring.
Author: | William Henty |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 181, 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5900 |
From John Lubbock 20 February 1868
Summary
Found [Variation] full of interest. Has not yet made up his mind about Pangenesis; wants to hear what can be said against it.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5901 |
From Roland Trimen 20 February 1868
Summary
Proportion of sexes in butterflies; discussion of subject at meeting of Entomological Society, London.
Attraction of males by female Lasiocampa quercus. [see Descent 1: 311–12.]
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 85: B59–60a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5902 |
From H. T. Stainton 20 February 1868
Summary
Sends a preliminary reply to CD’s query [5890]. Ten males to one female among captured micro-Lepidoptera. Six females to four or five males in those he has bred. HTS is aware this is diametrically opposed to information from [Alexander] Wallace and Bates, but the true proportion of sexes can only be ascertained by breeding.
Author: | Henry Tibbats Stainton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A6–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5903 |
From John William Douglas 20 February 1868
Author: | John William Douglas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5904 |
To James Shaw 20 February 1868
Summary
Is obliged for note on right-handedness. The subject is a very curious one, but CD has never attended to it and can give no additional facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | 20 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | Robert Wallace ed. 1899: lxi |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5905 |
letter | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Douglas, J. W. | (1) |
Henty, William | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Stainton, H. T. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Shaw, James | (1) |
Wilson, Edward | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Douglas, J. W. | (1) |
Henty, William | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Shaw, James | (1) |
2.20 Montford, terracotta bust, NPG
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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford presented this terracotta bust of Darwin to the National Portrait Gallery in January 1905. He explained that it was the model for the bronze busts commissioned by Andrew Carnegie in 1901, one of which is now in…
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Eaton
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'the Owen Constitution'
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- … A close Shrewsbury friend gives news from back home of other friends and acquaintances. …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … in the library, of which there is a photograph (pp. 218, 220). Christiane Groeben and Irmgard Müller …