To A. R. Wallace 6 April [1868]
Summary
More on the "terrible problem" of natural selection and sterility. CD’s reasons for disagreeing with ARW. CD analyses and answers ARW in detail in defence of his conclusion that sterility cannot be increased through natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 125–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6095 |
From F. T. Buckland 6 April [1868]
Summary
Sends Salmon Fisheries Report. Asks for CD’s opinion on his "close season" chapter.
| Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 363 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6096 |
From ? 6 April 1868
Summary
Gives details of some points that occurred to him while reading Variation, including observations on horses, cattle, silkworms, and hereditary baldness and disease.
| Author: | Unidentified |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6097 |
From St George Jackson Mivart 6 April 1868
Summary
Has asked gentlemen who administer chloroform to make observations [on expression?] for CD.
| Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6098 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Buckland, Frank | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Buckland, Frank | (1) |
| Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
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