To Roland Trimen 14 April [1868]
Summary
Has tried using dealers’ price-lists as a guide to sex ratios in Lepidoptera; finds numerous cases in which the sexes bring different prices and in virtually all of them the males are cheaper. This seems to confirm the impression of the field collectors.
Wishes RT good luck with natural history in S. Africa.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 68) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6117 |
From Richard Trevor Clarke 14 [April 1868]
Summary
Solicits CD’s support for the newly set up Royal Horticultural Society’s Scientific Committee.
Very pleased that he was put into CD’s book [Variation 1: 352].
Sends "hybridising pincers" of his own making.
| Author: | Richard Trevor Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 [Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6118 |
From W. G. Howell 14 April [1868 or 1874]
Summary
Has some "vegetable caterpillars" from New Zealand and will be pleased to show them to CD if he is interested.
| Author: | W. G. Howell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1868 or 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6119 |
To John Murray 14 April [1868]
Summary
About the advertising and title of a book [the translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin, see 6114].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | RR Auction (dealers) (June 2006) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6119A |
From J. J. Weir [14 April 1868]
Summary
Starlings find new mates readily. Nesting in threes common.
Recognition of song by birds.
| Author: | John Jenner Weir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Apr 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 88–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6152 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Clarke, R. T. | (1) |
| Howell, W. G. | (1) |
| Weir, J. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Clarke, R. T. | (1) |
| Howell, W. G. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
4.14 'Fun' cartoon, 'That troubles'
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< Back to Introduction Of all the cartoons showing Darwin as an ape, ‘That troubles our monkey again’ by John Gordon Thomson is the only one that hints, albeit playfully, at improper behaviour. Descent of Man had been criticised for its apparent…
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1.7 Ouless replica
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< Back to Introduction Following Darwin’s death in 1882, Walter William Ouless painted a replica of the portrait that had been commissioned from him by the Darwin family in 1875. This replica is signed and dated at lower left ‘W. W. Ouless 1883…
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- … Macmillan and Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1897), p. 414, ‘replica by Ouless of the picture …
