To W. E. Darwin 8 April [1868]
Summary
Thanks Charles Langstaff for his observations relating to expression. Has requested observations on the platysma. Discusses the actions of other facial muscles, especially during crying. [Encloses 5828.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 124, 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6103 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 [April] 1868
Summary
If CD is not convinced by his notes on sterility, ARW has little doubt that he is wrong. In fact he was only half-convinced by his own arguments.
Modifies his first proposition [a species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to free inter-crossing the variations never increase] and further discusses the subject.
Encloses Berthold Seemann’s notes on flora of the Hawaiian Islands. Presence of European alpine species in Hawaiian volcanoes is a "hard nut" for geographical distribution [but see ARW’s Island life (1880), p. 323].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 [Apr] 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B57-8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6104 |
From G. R. Gray 8 April 1868
Author: | George Robert Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6105 |
From Giovanni Canestrini 8 April 1868
Summary
Reports on Prof. Cornalia’s observations on the proportion of sexes in bees, and in healthy and sick silk moths, in nature and under domestication.
Author: | Giovanni Canestrini |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6106 |
From W. S. Dallas 8 April 1868
Summary
He never intended "A Lift for Darwin" as a serious title but as a way of arranging it. Lyell’s suggestion seems best to him: "Facts and Arguments For Darwin".
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6107 |
From John Smith 8 April 1868
Summary
Notes the differences in seed production between cross- and self-fertilized flowers of Victoria regia.
Author: | John Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6108 |
letter | (6) |
Canestrini, Giovanni | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Gray, G. R. | (1) |
Smith, John (c) | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Canestrini, Giovanni | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gray, G. R. | (1) |
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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…
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