To T. H. Huxley [before 18 May 1868]
Summary
Questions on marmosets and the vocal organs of Hylobates.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [before 18 May 1868] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 373) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6148 |
From Asa Gray 18 May 1868
Summary
Has passed on copy of Variation to American Academy [of Arts and Sciences]. The U. S. reprint is not very nicely printed.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6179 |
From Edward Blyth 18 May 1868
Summary
Replies to CD’s queries regarding sexual differences in gibbons’ voices, chameleon behaviour, and the occurrence of spurs in pheasants and peahens. Discusses sexual differences in structure and habit within certain bird species.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 148, DAR 84.1: 107–8, 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6180 |
From J. J. Weir 18 May 1868
Summary
Answers CD’s question on whether any female birds regularly sing.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 81–2, DAR 86: A37–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6181 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 18 May 1868
Summary
Sends graft-hybrid notice.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 208 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6182 |
From T. H. Farrer 18 May 1868
Summary
Is confirmed about the bending of the fly orchid pollinia. [See "Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 141.]
| Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6183 |
To J. J. Weir [before 18 May 1868]
Summary
CD cannot remember whether correspondent believed the wing that Gallus bankiva opens and scrapes before the female, is ornamented. He fears it is not.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | [before 18 May 1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6537 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Weir, J. J. | (2) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …
