To J. D. Hooker [20 May 1868]
Summary
Encloses grass from locust dung sent from Natal. Asks for name of grass.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20 May 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6190 |
From Albert Müller 20 May 1868
Summary
Wilson Armistead’s death cut short his work on galls, but Müller is continuing it.
In China only uni-coloured animals are sold for meat, the rest are killed in the litter.
Author: | Albert Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 282 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6191 |
To Otto Staudinger 20 May 1868
Summary
Thanks for information on sex ratios of Lepidoptera.
Agrees that entomologists have best means of proving derivation of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Otto Staudinger |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 492 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6192 |
From St G. J. Mivart 20 May 1868
Summary
Answers CD’s queries on sexual characters and differences among the Urodela.
Is interested in the relationship of pectoral and pelvic limbs in man and apes and has looked at reptiles and amphibians to find traces of the earlier conditions of the limbs.
Asks whether CD knows any instances of deformities or pathological conditions occurring simultaneously in both sets of limbs.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6193 |
From H. W. Bates 20 May 1868
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6194 |
To H. W. Bates 21 May [1868]
Summary
Lists specimens he wants from Mr Janson, emphasising that he always wants male and female.
He extends an invitation for a Sunday in early June.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 21 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6195 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 May [1868]
Summary
JDH too severe on Duke of Argyll.
Pities JDH on [BAAS] address [see 6099]; Huxley feels JDH will do well and will not pity him.
Thinks Huxley will give an excellent and original lecture on geographical distribution of birds.
Has been working hard on sexual selection and correspondence about it.
Mignonette is sterile with its own pollen but any two distinct plants are fertile together. It is utterly mysterious and not even Pangenesis will explain it.
On Lyell’s book [Principles, 10th ed.].
Wallace’s wonderful cleverness, but he is not cautious enough. CD differs from Wallace on birds’ nests and protection.
A. Murray’s miserable criticism of Wallace [J. Travel & Nat. Hist. 1 (1868): 137–45].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 May [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 62–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6196 |
From William Farr 21 May 1868
Summary
Has sent the Registrar General’s Report which shows proportion of male to female births in every county.
Consanguineous marriages.
Author: | William Farr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6197 |
To Deane Parker Pennethorne 22 May [1868]
Summary
Comments on DP’s paper on man ["Transmutation of man according to the Darwinian theory" (n.d.)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Deane Parker Pennethorne |
Date: | 22 May [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.350) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6198 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 22 May [1868]
Summary
Inquires about plumage of poultry breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 22 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6199 |
From John Harward 22 May 1868
Summary
Will obtain information on sheep.
Author: | John Harward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6200 |
From Joseph Bullar 23 May 1868
Summary
Is interested in CD’s remarks on role of pollen in modifying ovarium. Sends his own observations on numerical relations of stamens and pistils to divisions in the ovarium.
Author: | Joseph Bullar |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 372 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6201 |
From W. W. Reade 23 May 1868
Summary
Will answer CD’s queries from Africa.
Reports extreme amazement of some natives in Gabon upon seeing a white man for the first time.
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6202 |
From William Henty 23 May 1868
Summary
Sex ratios in cattle and sheep.
Author: | William Henty |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 85: B24, DAR 166: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6203 |
From C. S. Bate 24 May 1868
Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6204 |
To C. S. Bate 25 May [1868]
Summary
Thanks for note about enlarged left arm of Gelasimus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
Date: | 25 May [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6205 |
From Asa Gray 25 May 1868
Summary
CD’s book taking on famously. AG’s review in Nation [see 5921] and preface to American edition.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6206 |
To John Murray 25 May 1868
Summary
Asks JM to consider publishing a MS on John Wesley by CD’s niece, Frances Julia Wedgwood [John Wesley and the evangelical reaction of the eighteenth century (1870)].
Has received clean sheets for Italian translation [of Variation?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 25 May 1868 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.186–189) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6207 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 25 May 1868
Summary
Describes change of plumage in chickens in order to be sure he is clear about the age of chickens on which CD wants information. Encloses feathers to illustrate changes.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 49a, 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6208 |
From Edward Westey Janson 25 May 1868
Summary
Sends specimens selected by H. W. Bates.
Among the Lamellicornes the family Dynastidae have most instances of presence of stridulating organs; Frederick Smith says that in Hymenoptera female Mutilla has stridulating faculty in high degree.
[Itemised bill for Coleoptera specimens enclosed.]
Author: | Edward Westey Janson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6209 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Cupples, George | (3) |
Weir, J. J. | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Blyth, Edward | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Weir, J. J. | (3) |
Child, G. W. | (2) |
Cupples, George | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (74) |
Weir, J. J. | (6) |
Cupples, George | (5) |
Child, G. W. | (4) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (4) |